May I ask you consider signing this petition, and encouraging
your contacts, to do likewise?
Less than 1% of UK telephone and broadband lines provide fibre
to the property (FTTP). BT Openreach, the monopoly owner of the
UK's broadband infrastructure continue to focus on copper
connections to the property (FTTC). This is harming the UK economy
and must change.
The UK's broadband network is now a matter of national economic
and social importance, but BT Openreach, the monopoly owner of the
UK's broadband network focuses only on providing copper cables to
the property (FTTC). Less than 1% of UK telephone and broadband
connections have fibre all the way to the property, which is the
only future proof method of delivering fast, reliable broadband.
Broadband connects businesses and individuals to the trade routes
of the 21st century and Portugal, Denmark, Germany, France and
Italy all outstrip the UK in deploying fibre to the property. This
must change if the UK economy is to thrive.