BT Wholesale's director of product management, Angus Flett, has claimed that consumers don't want faster broadband services and that they won’t deliver it:


Flett's comments are obviously designed to play down the fact that they're not putting much effort into broadband beyond ADSL2+ or VDSL2. On the other hand there's not a lot of point in building 100Mbps networks if bandwidth can't keep up and consumers only ever connect with a far lower speed.

Likewise other countries, such as South Korea, have largely built their modern networks through vast public funding, something that is rather difficult to do in the EU. People may point to Sweden, but some of those we know on allegedly 100Mbps products barely receive 2Mbps.

Never the less, future broadband services shouldn’t be sidelined as at the very least they reference a serious need to improve broadband speeds for everybody, not just those living closest to the exchange. As a country we can not afford to fall behind. More @ The Register.