... 2 - Universal broadband - good for homeworking staff in marginal locations, bad for cost (we've got around 500 copperlines installed - £3K a year) 3 - Public service content - good to the extent that these improve government to business...
http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/cio-making-it-happen-blog
...FTTC involves installing fibre up to a cabinet in a street, and the homes and businesses in that street use existing copperlines to hook up to that cabinet. According to BT, the Muswell Hill and Whitchurch deployments each cover more than 15...
http://networks.silicon.com/broadband/0,39024661,39449321,00.htm
...called Digital Britain a "colossal disappointment" and lambasted the plan's proposal for a monthly 50p tax on fixed copperlines. Lord Carter, the report's author, proposed the levy as a way of funding the rollout of fibre-based...
http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39443430,00.htm