No fibre for me
Up here in the land of wind-farm and tidal gold-rush everybody and their dog wants to make a buck. The problem is that the interconnect is already running at full capacity. So a new sub-sea cable is needed but nobody wants to pay for it. In fact they want the consumer to pay for it and all the pylons etc. The local public were invited to a presentation of how our landscape will look like with all this clutter installed.
I asked them if they planned to add fibre to the interconnect and this was the reply:
"We will have some fibre for our own systems control but if we add fibre for telecommunications we have to register as a provider*."
Of course the bureaucracy would add years of delay so it won't get done. End result, a £20 million cable with no broadband facility. No joined-up thinking here in the UK :(
*I can't remember the exact term used.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
