It appears that a meeting between the broadband industry and ministers is being held to discuss the reasons why and how the UK has found itself lagging behind in the high-speed network game. Whereas other countries in the US & Europe are seeing significant increases in bandwidth, the UK ISPs are having trouble just providing it’s current service to it’s customers.

The maximum speeds being quoted are 24 Meg from BT by 2011 & 50 Meg from Virgin by the end of the year (a bold move, considering it’s maximum is 25 Meg at the moment.) As the maximum bandwidth of ADSL2+ is 24 Meg, it seems as though our current copper lines will not be seeing any significant increases over the next few years. And as companies in the US like Verizon are investing billions of dollars into their fibre network, with a maximum of 100 Meg, it requires the UK to seriously invest in our online future now before we slip too far behind. [SHOW ME]