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Access Issues In Rural Britain
The BBC reported today that government if falling well short of its target to achieve broadband coverage across the UK by 2015. Although those living in large urban areas have access to ample bandwidth, the UK has a large rural dwelling population and many remote areas are being essentially cut off from society by not possesing the high quality internet access the rest of us enjoy. Dial up is the only option but with the archaic loading speeds and virtually zero hope of downloading large swathes of data before Christmas, individuals who operate their businesses out of farms for example are an afterthought.
Wales is one of the worst areas for being on the recieving end of government neglect and even in areas just five miles outside Swansea, broadband is not an option. Using dial-up is almost unimaginable to those who have been used to high speed access for years, even for simple recreational browsing, it is clearly unworkable then for a business having to process reams of data as well as constantly communicating with customers.
This makes us realise how lucky we all are to have broadband in our homes, let alone WiFi access in town centres, libraries and coffee shops. 'The Cloud' is the future but surely the government should continue with it’s push to make high-speed internet available to all before giving Wi-Fi coveragea second thought.
The lack of high-speedinternet has a whole host of other effects on businesses who are very much left in the dark ages. IP Phone systems such as the Avaya IP Office are an impossibility, this coupled with a dial-up connection is a double blow for rural businesses. A Voice over IP Phone is especially useful in isolated areas for contacting customers and other business via video-link, this brings a personable element to the businesses communications without having to travel long distances at a high cost.
The government needs to re-evaluate it’s spending policy on digital and bring small towns and villages into line with the rest of the country in terms of providing broadband access. At the current rate it looks unlikely that the target of 2mbps broadband in every home will be achieved by 2015, amid vicious spending cuts however, it looks as though some may be unlucky enough to be hearing the dial-up tone in five years time.
do you think the ipad / tablets will replace laptops in 10 years?
no more mechanical keyboards?
high speed wifi eliminates CD-ROMS
USB also available for non-wi fi zones....
current ipad can't replace anything 
if there will be something better than a keyboard, then tablets can replace laptops.
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