"newshound" wrote in message
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On 17/11/2019 18:50, Rod Speed wrote:


"newshound" wrote in message
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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.

Why ? They mostly chose to be there and they mostly
dont even get a decent bus service anymore.

But it's not about the "they" who are there now. With decent connectivity
all sorts of businesses could operate in these locations.

Why should the taxpayers be paying for that ?

That would open up employment opportunities for local youngsters who
currently have to move away to find work.

That will always be the case even if the taxpayer
does pay for decent communications services there.

The UK is quite different to Australia because of the different geography.

It isnt actually with those small and remote comminitys.
We in fact have far more of those than you lot do and
a far worse problem with nothing useful for the kids
and adults to do at all with an immense suicide problem
for that reason. And criminal activity in spades.

And full scale war the likes of which you never see at all.

And a murder rate that is much worse than
in the worst of the urban ghettos in the USA,