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Copper causes Aids etc
Posted by: eusty on Monday, December 24, 2007 - 11:19 AM
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It must have been too much pre-Xmas sherry, or a plan to get into the 'school
of bleedin' obvious', but we have been told the reason for slow ADSL, according
to Virgin Media.
At his eForum discussion the Minister of State for Competitiveness, Stephen
Timms, was told by Virgin Media chief technical officer Howard Watson the
problem was...copper!!
He also blamed it on the use in promotion of the words "up to" when relating
to broadband speeds.
| [Copper cable] "had created the unfortunate need for the 'up to'
lexicon in the broadband industry" "We have 12.5 million homes (52 per cent) where I have fibre to
a cabinet within 800 metres of those homes.
"We have 15 million short copper loops [going into those homes] And
we have coaxial which has this ability to carry something around
4Gbps to each of the 500 homes off each network." |
| Howard Watson Virgin Media chief technical officer |
Scientists are also looking into whether it is the cause
AIDS and smallpox as well......
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