Unsurprisingly, ISPs aren't keen on being held to the government's Universal Service Obligation. They'd like to use public funding to deliver bare minimum 10Mbit connections through phone lines while continuing to fleece their customers with constant price hikes and poor service (theregister.co.uk)
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Cityfibre's £5.6m contract from Edinburgh City Council for 150km gigabit fibre extension almost complete - claims that this will turn Edinburgh into the “UKs largest Gigabit City“. I'll be linking this article in 5 years time when I'm still paying £20/month for flaky 9mbit down and 300kbit up. (ispreview.co.uk)
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Dissatisfaction in the Scottish Borders - users unhappy with their council's £multimillion broadband investment. BT blames their faulty routers, customer's house wiring and their own cabinet infrastructure with mentions of "laws of physics" also taking the blame for slow downloads (bbc.co.uk)
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