Hunt tosses 27 cities into broadband cash bunfight Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt has laid down the gauntlet for 27 cities to bid for £50m government funds to be in with a chance of gaining "ultrafast" broadband networks by 2014. A strict set of criteria was laid out by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) today. The cash pile was allocated by Chancellor George …
Given that alot of city's obtained there status thru the legacy prerequasition of having a cathedral, thenin a way this is biased towards religious people over non-religious.
That joke aside it still is a situation that area's were private money would to upgrade infrastructure as its cost effective due to population density in these area's would be more suitable. Especialy as the goverment has been bent on privatising alot of areas. The logic here seems flawed as to pump extra free money to make the most suitable area's better highlights that it's not cost effective otherwise and draws a big red line under how any non-city or large town, let alone small hamlet only a few miles out of the loop would ever have a chance of getting there super fast internets.
If were having to subsidies better internet in high, densely populated area's then what hope have the reast of the country. This is not how you encourage private companies, it's how you encourage companies that want to steal that money to pay there shareholders and then after carroting punters, rape them as well.
@asdf - I suggest you look up the term. "Bunfight" has nothing to do with "Bumfight" and, in fact, pre-dates it by a long time.
Whilst it can mean an official (but completely unimportant) event which requires people to dress up in their best finery, it also is used to mean an argument or dispute which is "a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing at all".
>it also is used to mean an argument or dispute which is "a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing at all".
So they did mean bum fight which this describes unless of course you consider the vodka bottle the bums are fighting over to signify something crucial. Ok ok sorry you are right of course. I guess its only American white trash that has heard of bum fights but not bun fights.
Because for some reason places with cathedrals and/or royal approval need faster internet and definitely not because less proposals means less work. Or at least my uncynical and childish mind thought, until that is, I read the proposal and came across this:
3.4. Q. Why have you chosen the Chartered Cities?
A. In the UK the legal definition of a city is one with a Royal Charter. The criterion sets the number of cities eligible to bid to a manageable number, limiting the number of cities who will work to put together a proposal but fail to be allocated funding.
Government should be focusing on a public sector network to deliver a PROPER shared IT infrastructure capability amongst public sector organisations.
For example:
Q: WHY are there over a hundred individual implementations of Exchange server in public sector organisations in my region?
A: Because public sector directors are parochial players, public sector organisations don't have the skills or structure to run with a formal enterprise architecture, government will not clamp down on the parochial but profitable remit of public sector suppliers, and lastly, because, depsite the promises in opposition, we always end up with a clueless f*ckwit of a minister with no remit to deliver a coherent long-term strategy.
I'm curious as too whether the ministers actually have a plan for increasing the UK's overall capacity, its all well and good trying to convince the private sector to create 'super broadband networks'. I think most of the private firms have realized a few major things:
Our capacity for transit outside of the UK is becoming limited and major investment is needed in under sea cables. Of course the bottom lines will be hit as well: faster connections mean more data throughput and that of course leads to more expensive peer agreements yet the increased revenue barely covers it.
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