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When BT finally gets round to replacing it with fibre , the next 'technological breakthrough' will no doubt happen and we'll have to wait another few decades again to benefit.

I'm not cynical!!!

You would be surprised how many good ideas your staff will come up with if you let them.
We have regular meetings with staff and one of the items on the agenda is improvement, this includes environment and efficiency including working practices and waste. They are very forthcoming and we often incorporate change with their input. They really feel part of the company and actually look for improvements.
You could introduce a suggestion box and periodically reward the best idea. Naturally all line managers need to be involved.

Perhaps we can start with a whip round here!!!

Je voudrais aller demanager en France mais juis trop age'!

Good question and worthy of a lot of debate from everyone involved, especially business.
The way forward has to be led by the government, its such a huge undertaking, perhaps the all-inclusive bit is not so far away from what is necessary. However, it surely has to be private enterprise with the big players wholly involved. Clearly there would have to be incentives offered by government.

It's all very well saying the coffers are bare and the country can't afford it but can we afford not to!
Remember politicians are in charge. There is no money but we have managed to shell out another big sum for the 'exercise' in Libya.
First of all there has to be a will and the politicians need to fully realise the problems companies (and therefore the country) are already encountering, plenty of new technology out there, just not much chance of using a lot of it to its full potential.
How many of us sit there working on our PC's swearing about the slow speed of our networks and imagine how much extra work we could get done with a decent network! Multiply that by everyone in the same situation in the UK, the difference in efficiency and the resultant output would be phenominal!

Getting the country out of the problems we have is not just geared to paying of the debt and relying once again on banking and the service industries. We must have some of the best business minds and innovators and inventors in the world but the majority seem to end up in other countries, WHY????

For this country to compete with the likes of China and India and others in the future we need to act sooner rather than later. Its the will that has to change, apathy doesn't work!

Steve, this is great to see this. I have to admit many years ago, I did get caught, supposedly supporting the police with their child protection scheme.
Of course it was the magazine sales guy inferring that he was representing the police. trying to make you feel guily and it was your duty.
Once bitten!!

I have a bee in my bonnet about the quality of our broadband service from BT and I've made this point here before briefly, when we were looking to install a VOIP system only to discover that we can't due to the poor quality of the network.

I know we can use vodaphone and orange as an alternative and we are investigating these options but my point is where is this country going when we are so far behind our neighbours, there seems little to look forward to in the way of upgrade. Plent of rhetoric, not much action, now we hear BT is increassing their prices by 9%.

Sorry to harp on about this but it will concern everyone at some point in the future unless we see drastic improvements.

Heres an interesting article:
Broadband: How Britain compares - Telegraph

I appreciate your comments and yes BT is of course privatised as admit to being one who did indeed profit form that sale.

No I certainly don't know the answer but somewhere along the line, government will have to get involved because if they don't (and to quote Osbourne and Cameron "Britain is open for Business") we won't be able to compete with other countries on a level playing field and then we will struggle as a country.