"Fibre, copper and aluminium
What I didn't pack was any aluminium cable, which would have been useful in Milton Keynes yesterday. The city's telephone network, built in the seventies when the price of copper was sky-high, has an awful lot of aluminium in it, which makes it pretty useless in terms of delivering broadband.
So Milton Keynes, a new town, is trapped in the 20th Century when it comes to the high-speed internet - which is why the fixed Wimax network we were there to cover is an attractive option for some residents with no other way of getting broadband."
Rory [Cellan-Jones] is absolutely spot on - a good part of MK is wired with aluminium cabling, meaning it simply cannot take high-data-rate ADSL signals.
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