uk: universal access 2mbps for everyone in 2012, brown promises and "makes it happen" by levying taxes on fixed lines. | bbc

around one third of british population don't have access to the network today - or just a shitty one | sfgate

usa: verizon keeps 18 states out from high-speed fiber-optic broadband internet (FIOS) and there are not so many possibilities left there anyhow.

Verizon is unloading land lines in eighteen states because they don't want to keep building FIOS there. | david isenberg

well, dick lynch, verizon, risks a look into the crystal ball instead:

10gbps down and 2.5gbps up-stream might enable a multi-gigabit feed to each and every customer| ftthcouncil

if you are living in the right state, one might add ...

tomorrow ecoc09 starts and the program includes kind of everything: from access to core networks, data centers to what will be next after Pon, BPon, Epon, GePon ... and 100tbit/s.