On 17/11/2019 11:44, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
I'm all in favour of a government initiative to get fibre to all premises
in the UK. Given the current purely commercial setup is not expanding fast
enough. A mate who lives in Lewis (S coast of England, and hardly miles
from 'civilisation') still hasn't got even FTC, despite very slow BB.

But the idea of making it totally free to use just pie in the sky and
silly to boot.

Just another example of the political parties trying to buy votes.


And, of course, it is not free. There's a capital cost for installation
and an on-cost for maintenance.

The only money that the IT giants have is what they take from their
customers directly or indirectly. Tax that, and they will replace it
somehow.

I *do* agree that it is in the national interest to get decent bandwidth
to small and remote communities.