Hi Blitz,

Thanks for the link to the article. It made for some interesting reading. Though I doubt we will be seeing the 'Grid' anytime soon. I suspect there is just not going to be enough revenue stream to pay for the fibreoptic infrastructure. Downloading high definition movies in a matter of seconds achieves very little when HD movies can already be streamed using current DSL technology.

At the moment the fastest speed offered by my local ISP here in the north east of Scotland is only 20 Mbits/sec, although in the near future (a year or so) there is another company that is going to be offering 100 Mbits/sec. We are just so far behind other countries such as Japan, South Korea, France, Sweden and even New Zealand over here in the UK in terms of Broadband speeds.