The Future of Broadband

Fibre Optic Cables

The UK is behind in terms of development in the infrastructure to facilitate greater broadband access and speed capabilities.  Using Fibre cables rather than the traditional copper cables to the home would bring speeds of between 50Mbps and 100Mbps. This investment would also bring the added benefit of being able to offer those speeds both upstream and downstream.

Fibre optics are encased in cable similar to an ordinary PC cable but inside are tiny, hair-size fibres of many colours. They are used to transmit digital information in the form of light signals

It’s Predicted that Dial-up is Coming to an End by 2010

Within the next two years it is predicted that Dial-up internet connections will be a thing of the past. uSwitch.com have published figures that suggests that just four per cent of residential internet connections will use dial-up modems by 2010.

Quicker broadband connections and an increase in available access to broadband nationwide, will see the end to dial up, Steve Weller, head of communications at uSwitch.com, predicted.

UK homes to get super-fast fibre

Ofcom have published proposals to promote next generation broadband networks for new housing and office developments and has announced a survey of UK infrastructure to examine the scope for extending these networks elsewhere.  The proposals seek to encourage investment in super-fast broadband with speeds of up to 100 Mbit/s*, while promoting competition in the provision of these services.

In 2007, the Government announced a target of three million new build homes by 2020; it is estimated that around 246,000 new residential and business premises are being built each year. A number of new build developments are already being fitted with fibre-based networks, including Ebbsfleet in Kent, where the new owners will move in this summer.

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