Infinite Path

BT is planning an ambitious roll out of its super fast broadband services. The copper wiring that feeds broadband to millions of people around the UK, is not sophisticated enough to deliver a faster broadband speed, and at the moment, the speed of broadband from BT is dependent on how close to the exchange you happen to be.

BT wants to make wholesale changes to its network by improving the wiring and the chances of actually receiving ‘high speed’ broadband. At the moment, there are no guarantees as to how fast your broadband speed will actually be. Your package may state that it will deliver a certain speed, but when a test is carried out the speed is nowhere near.

Genuinely high-speed broadband across the board would have a huge impact in the modern world and the way in which businesses, especially, could operate. It should really be the case that broadband can be accessed anywhere across the country. There should not be black spots and places where speeds cannot reach a fraction of what is achieved in most areas.

Productivity of the connected world will one day be vastly changed by broadband capability. In many ways, considering the technology that we are all now used to, broadband services and delivery – through copper wires which were installed decades before the internet was even born – is archaic in its nature. It is crucial to so many parts of everyday life, and yet, it is not advanced in the same way as the technology that uses it.