Link: BT plans UK’s largest ever investment in Super-Fast Broadband .
BT today announced plans to roll out fibre-based, super-fast broadband to as many as 10 million homes by 2012. The £1.5 billion programme will deliver a range of services with top speeds of up to 100 Mb/s with the potential for speeds of more than 1,000 Mb/s in the future.
L'annuncio e' di oggi e a giudicare dai titoli sembra eccezionale.
Pero', a guardare i dettagli, assomiglia agli annunci di Telecom in Italia:
BT already provides fibre to the premises of more than 120,000 businesses, and has deployed more than 10 million kilometres of fibre in the network.
Arriva con FTTB gia' a 120.000 aziende.
BT plans to invest around £1.5 billion in total on the programme, of which around £1 billion is incremental to BT’s existing expenditure plans for fibre deployment.
Investimento di 1,5 miliardi, di cui 1 miliardo in piu' rispetto a cio che fa oggi
BT expects its initial investment in the programme will result in around £100 million of incremental capital expenditure in each of the 2008/09 and 2009/10 financial years, taking the total expected capital expenditure in those years to around £3.2 billion and £3.1 billion, respectively. The remaining incremental spend of £800 million will be spread over the following three financial years.
100 milioni all'anno nei prossimi due anni e poi investiremo molto.. basta che Ofcom e il governo...
A supportive and enduring regulatory environment is essential if this investment is to take place. Given this, BT will be discussing with Ofcom the conditions that would be necessary to enable this programme to progress. These include removing current barriers to investment and making sure that anyone who chooses to invest in fibre can earn a fair rate of return for their shareholders.
Come dire, le regole che ci sono non funzionano.. IMHO la rete e' un bene comune per tutti gli operatori coinvolti e la competizione infrastrutturale porta alla tragedy of the commons. Per cui, one network.. bitstream access.
