MC quote

Just discovered this quote . I was asked to quote for this article too. I said I think it{s irrelevant what goes on in the ADSL market. Yes, there{s competition, good. But those of us in rural areas don{t want public or any other money being spent on enabling exchanges for DSL unless the money is spent on upgrading the middle mile copper to fibre. And most of those exchanges are in deeply rural areas, not towns and cities. In fact, one could ponder on the correlation between the 600 plus unviable exchanges and the location of copper........

We want NGNs. We want more bandwidth now. Lay the fibre, light the fibre. Do we care who does that? Nope.

And final thought, when rural areas show take ups of 60 %, telcos should surely start asking themselves if they are really cherry picking the most profitable exchanges?

C&W announced today they are spending 190m on their NGN, which no doubt they can roll out before BT.