Are we really surprised?
With promise after promise broken on the UK's stalled fibre roll out, is it any surprise that the main villain of the peace is....wait for it.....BT!!Well for once, they are not entirely to blame...
Cast your mind back to 2010, when the then culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt unveiled an ambitious plan to set the UK on to the information superhighway. Superlatives aside, the plan was to open up vast swathes of the countryside to fast broadband utilising fibre optic cabling and crucially, the installation contract process and subsequent installs would be no longer held by one company......
The Inconvenient Truth !
Now the National Audit Office has found that the whole programme is nearly two years behind schedule, so it may be 2017 before the UK can lay claim about download capacities being amongst the highest in the world!! And to insult to injury, the coalition government's plan to spark a competition between telecoms firms to lay fibre across the country has also proved an abject failure.
In practice, this means that Openreach, the installation arm of BT will effectively be the only bidder on all the fibre rollouts, and the sweetener for BT: a £1.2 billion government subsidy..........................now that's magic as they say
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