- Mon Jan 25, 2016 6:31 pm
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If you live somewhere in that "last 10%" zone of coverage for services that most of the other 90% generally take for granted, you can run into problems especially for the likes of broadband & mobile. Other things can usually be overcome or adjusted to, whereas if you had trouble getting a reliable terrestrial TV signal in the past you can now get Freesat. No mains water & sewage? Check for either a local option or the possibility of a well & septic tank. Electric? A bit of an extreme case but can be partly overcome with generators & small scales renewable etc.
As far as I know despite all the bluster of Northern Ireland supposedly achieving "100% broadband coverage" nearly a decade ago (which was false, as they had to include satellite to reach that figure), many parts have a significant amount of premises which can't get even a 2Mb/s download speed via Openreach which is being talked about as a bare minimum proposed USP speed. I think the figure is nearly 20% in my constituency. On the other hand, most of that remaining 80% have access to FTTC services even in small villages of around 200 people. The problem here is that degradation of service due to line distance is a bigger problem when populations are spread out rather than mostly concentrated in settlements with at least 4 figures. As a result there is an increasing digital divide not so much on cost but by postcode - I can get a 60Mb/s FTTC service with 4G from O2, Vodafone & EE whereas a friend of mine some two miles away can only get a 3Mb/s ADSL line on a good day with only a scratchy 2G O2 or Vodafone signal for mobile.Daley Mayle wrote:Tim sniffily dismisses the fact that only 10% of the population gets a piss poor broadband connection. If he was a Tenpercenter and trying to run his blog that requires him access to the internet for all the research he needs he wouldn't be so fucking blasé.
If you live somewhere in that "last 10%" zone of coverage for services that most of the other 90% generally take for granted, you can run into problems especially for the likes of broadband & mobile. Other things can usually be overcome or adjusted to, whereas if you had trouble getting a reliable terrestrial TV signal in the past you can now get Freesat. No mains water & sewage? Check for either a local option or the possibility of a well & septic tank. Electric? A bit of an extreme case but can be partly overcome with generators & small scales renewable etc.
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