News - Cornish super-fast broadband project on schedule

[Tunnah]

ha i'm loving this little fight, its great.

Cornwall isn't a complete crapfest..but the people who could step forward and testify how truly bad it is can't get on here, they sold the phone lines for another hit of horse

[TheAnimus]

broadband WILL help in Cornwall.....

But at what cost?

The main business benefit I can foresee is guest houses etc, will be able to offer WiFi thats really quite snappy.

good speeds are a rareity for many of the people down there..... and that's not fair.

Yes, but ultimately is FTTC the best way for resolving that? There will still be a LOT of people who are too far from the cabinet to get a good speed. There are 'new build areas' which are included in this which will get quite a good number of people per cabinet converted, so why pray do BT need money to do this. Also worth noting its predominantly residential.

That money could have been spent on something better, this is only going to benefit BT.

[TheAnimus]

BT want to do it in Cornwall as they seem to think if they can do it there they can do it anywhere.

So we're funding a BT research project, with our tax money? One that is already working in parts of London which have historic cabling shall we say.

I'm 21, I'm in the final year of my Degree. Sorry, i only took my point of view in this.. Oh wait.. that's all you've done.

Erm not sure what your getting at, anything anyone ever posts is their POV, but the cold statistics do back it up. Cornwall is full of under educated people.

It has a much higher than average portion of retired people.

It has a massive portion of NEETs, especially during the winter.

It also has a very large (as a ratio of total employment) cash in hand job sector.

Feel free to love the place as much as you want. But it is below average, hence why almost all of the area is objective 1
http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/...regions_en.htm

Everything you just said could ALSO be said for any other place, in any other county in the UK.

No it can't. Shall we talk about this as been more than one SD from the mean, would that help drive home the point.

This is quite possibly the dumbest post i have ever read on here, total drivel based on your sole opinion.

Congratulations for debunking it.

Oh wait, you didn't, other guy just called me a nonce and informed me the M5 was in Cornwall. I'm getting the impression its worse than I currently think.

[dangel]

dangel 2/3rds of my opening post was serious, thats quite a record for me.....

I also stand by how silly this is, granted from BT POV it might be a good test due to the distance between cabinet and exchange been, I'd imagine, further than average.

Now insulting the entire region, its 'below average'.

Whilst that may be true (and I also think it's an odd place for such a venture) you could possibly of been a little less inflammatory in putting it across Twas all I was pointing out No offence intended as you know.

[watercooled]

I agree with CAT, ISPs in this country should really do more to try Wimax in sparsely populated areas.

[Merson]

So we're funding a BT research project, with our tax money?

Your funding a lot of useless stuff with your tax money. Why such a gripe over this one? Or do you love the fact that half of your tax money at the moment is going to say illegal immigrants or the 2012 Olympics?

I'm getting the impression its worse than I currently think.

Nice to base your entire demographic on two people in this thread.

All i'm going to say is this.. Yes Cornwall has a high number of unemployment i'm not going to disagree on that fact. But the entire UK has a high number of unemployment to go with it. Last year Cornwall was over the national average. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/8520134.stm) Since March of this year it is now under it and dropped overall from 3.3% to 3.1% while the national average continues to shoot up. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-12759380)

Make of that what you will but it is obvious you will not change your opinion on this.

[TheAnimus]

Your funding a lot of useless stuff with your tax money. Why such a gripe over this one? Or do you love the fact that half of your tax money at the moment is going to say illegal immigrants or the 2012 Olympics?

Ah yes you'll forgive me, I've not had a copy of the daily mail today, I'll have to take your word for it. But lets not forget, just because some money is wasted elsewhere doesn't mean it can be wasted again.

Nice to base your entire demographic on two people in this thread.

Hence why I said started too, especially if we assume that hexus by its nature isn't going to be a random sample.

All i'm going to say is this.. Yes Cornwall has a high number of unemployment i'm not going to disagree on that fact. But the entire UK has a high number of unemployment to go with it. Last year Cornwall was over the national average. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/8520134.stm) Since March of this year it is now under it and dropped overall from 3.3% to 3.1% while the national average continues to shoot up. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-12759380)

NEET

This is an important thing to note, a lot of the population is excluded from unemployment figures, as they are retired, on incapacity etc. so its NEET that you need to watch, thanks to governments largely making the un-employment figure bull.

So, when you look at it on paper, it is somewhere which has a lower than average educational achievement for the 16-65 demographic, with high NEETs, seems like a crap hole to me. This is exactly what I've said above. Now I'm still waiting, why is this a remotely good spend of taxpayers money. It just smacks of pork barreling to me.