Recently, fibre-optic communication cable updates have been hitting the news. There is no argument about this – it is 100% a good thing. So why is everyone being so slow about it?
I live in rural England, so my internet connection is exceptionally slow. It would be great to have an internet connection even close to the 1 gigabit a second speeds in Japan. In England, the politicians seem to be using this as a method to increase taxes, and oppositions are hoping to use this to win the election in a few weeks.
I have noticed that there has been news from abroad on the subject. With Google announcing to create a fibre-optic network in a city in the US, resulting in cities going to crazy lengths to get their attention.
In my opinion, networks like this should be introduced around the world. It may cost quite a bit, however it should be a priority because of the increasing popularity of the internet. We need to keep up with it, otherwise the internet will not be able to develop, because we are all stuck with 10 kilobit a second connections (yes, it is as bad as that here).
So what are we waiting for? Oh wait, yeah, this is now a political issue. I see, so we could be waiting quite a while…
