Without fibre the speed of broadband will drop in the UK
An analyst has warned that there is a serious risk of broadband speeds dropping drastically in the UK if it doesn’t get its act together with regards to next-generation broadband networks.
During a Westminster eForum keynote seminar on next-generation broadband, discussing the fibre deployment business case the research director at analyst house Forrester Research, Ian Fogg warned “If we get this wrong — which we might do — or if we’re slow to do it, tomorrow’s broadband speeds may be the same as today’s broadband speeds. They may be worse without that investment. People use iPlayer, they use World of Warcraft （ Buy wow gold ） , they use these things more and more and if there isn’t the network investment going in, the actual speeds that we enjoy will actually reduce over the next few years. We need to get this right and we need to get this right today.”
With regard to home broadband users Fogg said that fibre is the only means to provide a “step change” in speeds.With a recent trend of pricing drops for broadband in the UK Fogg warned that the fact that many customers expected their fat pipes to be lower rather than higher priced could seriously impact the future of fibre deployment.
The problem may not be with people being willing to pay for higher speed broadband, said the analyst, but that the ability for customers to make a comparison between offers from rival ISPs was made more difficult due to a lack of clarity in the marketing of offers, which meant that shopping by service price was the only option available to them.
Fogg said “We need to fix this because if consumers don’t pay more for broadband, or if they pay increasingly less, the business case for fibre optic broadband and for investment worsens over time. While fibre will play a role in the future of Britain’s broadband — telco BT recently announced a £1.5bn investment to give 10 million UK homes fibre access by 2012 — a consensus is emerging the UK will end up with a ‘patchwork quilt’ of technologies to deliver super high-speed broadband services, rather than one ubiquitous offering.The chief executive of the Broadband Stakeholder Group, Anthony Walker told the eForum delegates “We’re not going to get one single monolithic NGA [next-generation access]. In the
UK we’re going to see a number of different networks deployed that will work alongside each other.”
It would therefore be a critical step that a single standard be established that all technologies must adhere to so that interoperability is ensured, said the principal of strategy and developments at Ofcom, Clive Carter. He advised “The availability of common standards is going to be fundamental to the delivery of the patchwork-quilt model.”
The chief executive of the Community Broadband Network, Malcolm Corbett said that a method of bringing fibre to areas that may, in most cases, be overlooked in a cost-effective way would be to use initiatives for local next-gen broadband which has gained strong backing from the community. The fibre to the home project in Eindhoven, the Netherland by the community owned Ons Net was one of the initiatives he cited, where telcos were given a guarantee of a return on their investments because contract were signed by the towns residents before the service was even built.
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During a Westminster eForum keynote seminar on next-generation broadband, discussing the fibre deployment business case the research director at analyst house Forrester Research, Ian Fogg warned “If we get this wrong — which we might do — or if we’re slow to do it, tomorrow’s broadband speeds may be the same as today’s broadband speeds. They may be worse without that investment. People use iPlayer, they use World of Warcraft （ Buy wow gold ） , they use these things more and more and if there isn’t the network investment going in, the actual speeds that we enjoy will actually reduce over the next few years. We need to get this right and we need to get this right today.”
With regard to home broadband users Fogg said that fibre is the only means to provide a “step change” in speeds.With a recent trend of pricing drops for broadband in the UK Fogg warned that the fact that many customers expected their fat pipes to be lower rather than higher priced could seriously impact the future of fibre deployment.
The problem may not be with people being willing to pay for higher speed broadband, said the analyst, but that the ability for customers to make a comparison between offers from rival ISPs was made more difficult due to a lack of clarity in the marketing of offers, which meant that shopping by service price was the only option available to them.
Fogg said “We need to fix this because if consumers don’t pay more for broadband, or if they pay increasingly less, the business case for fibre optic broadband and for investment worsens over time. While fibre will play a role in the future of Britain’s broadband — telco BT recently announced a £1.5bn investment to give 10 million UK homes fibre access by 2012 — a consensus is emerging the UK will end up with a ‘patchwork quilt’ of technologies to deliver super high-speed broadband services, rather than one ubiquitous offering.The chief executive of the Broadband Stakeholder Group, Anthony Walker told the eForum delegates “We’re not going to get one single monolithic NGA [next-generation access]. In the
UK we’re going to see a number of different networks deployed that will work alongside each other.”
It would therefore be a critical step that a single standard be established that all technologies must adhere to so that interoperability is ensured, said the principal of strategy and developments at Ofcom, Clive Carter. He advised “The availability of common standards is going to be fundamental to the delivery of the patchwork-quilt model.”
The chief executive of the Community Broadband Network, Malcolm Corbett said that a method of bringing fibre to areas that may, in most cases, be overlooked in a cost-effective way would be to use initiatives for local next-gen broadband which has gained strong backing from the community. The fibre to the home project in Eindhoven, the Netherland by the community owned Ons Net was one of the initiatives he cited, where telcos were given a guarantee of a return on their investments because contract were signed by the towns residents before the service was even built.
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