With technology advancing every day, products are sure to change in many different ways whether it becomes smaller, bigger, faster, lighter, and more energy efficient or less expensive. When it comes to broadband, it seems that it will become faster and maybe smaller but new advances in the cable technology will make it a lot more expensive for people to be able to jump online.
A new system being introduced is by users using a fibre optics cable rather than the traditional copper wire; this will make the broadband connections up to 30 times faster enabling you to download an album in 30 seconds, tune in to high definition TV and allow video calling in all homes and businesses in the UK.
Ofcom, the industry watchdog, have suggested that the entire country will need to make the switch to fibre optic broadband similar to the switch from terrestrial TV to digital TV in around two year's time.
Private companies have confirmed they will foot the bill for the installation in busy areas but will not for many rural areas of the UK, just under 40%. This will leave thousands without the internet unless the government find the rest of the cash. This cost will no doubt be passed down to the taxpayers which will cost a little over £5 billion to run cables into every street and £29 billion for it to run into every house.
Virgin and BT have already started rolling out the new fibre optic service to customers.
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