I hate to be sceptical, but that sounds like a good idear you've got there. So that should mean it has next to sod all chance in ever being implimented. Shame really. I agree that is seems odd that the infastructure is so fragmented, and that the upgreads are being done on sections that are already running ok. It does seem to be that there is a 2 class broadband envirment. In a town / city vs rural.
Yeah, the Governments plan seems to be to fund backbone links for every village, and then cut the red tape and open access to ducts and poles so that communities/local businesses can sort things out in a more flexible manner than BT. I'm still waiting for the White Paper to see anything concrete though, and fully expect to be disappointed.
I'm perfectly understanding that there are higher Installation costs associated with the countryside, the problem at the moment is that there's no option to pay the difference. It's take BT's shitty ADSL, or get a leased line costing tens of thousands to install, and then thousands a month in rent because you're paying for unlimited bandwidth at 1:1 contention and enterprise levels of availability.
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