alt Hacker NewsOur old countries (and their tech) building on top of old.
Developing countries have less of a hassle with implementing something based on state of the art.
Lots of hassles with getting new phone lines, new power lines et al in the UK based on old agreements and a nationalised infrastructure. Please stop digging up roads and everything for arbitrary telecoms companies based on some deregulation, some collaboration please :-)
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f4c39012 • 06/15/2025
someone from the local gas company told me that the reason the utilites don't work together is that they can't because of rules - electric and gas need to be kept separate for safety, and the surrounding soil means water leaks can be absorbed away from other utilities' pipework. I didn't dig any deeper
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No thank you, my Cityfibre connection is 2/3 of the cost of a BT hosted one and is 150Mb up and down, instead of BT's asynchronous offering. Installed in a couple of days of ordering too.