Super without being too judgmental im going to guess you're of an older generation?

I wont judge you too much but you obviously dont understand the importance of proper high speed Internet access in this day and age.

Probably still using dial up yeh?

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The internet is the future of our economy, might as well invest as much as we can in our internet connection nationwide.

Joking aside DC high speed net access is important to many small businesses.

The internet is sheidt, it took me 20 seconds to load a video of a donkey humping a swedish burd the other night

How many of you are going to buy a 4g phone when it comes out?


Good luck cause you wont be able to use it outside of Glasgow city centre.

Coupla rupees and ye could probably have got a local ridin an elephant quicker

Chuman - whats older generation? You being ageist?

So lets say you have 20mbps at present what difference will 100mbps mean to you?

Aye ah'd imagine it would be chuman

So lets say you have 20mbps at present what difference will 100mbps mean to you?
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That's like saying:

You have a plane that can travel 200 mph, what difference will a plane travelling 1000mph mean to you?

If ye crash yer fckd

Keith it isnt really as the plane could get you somewhere quicker! So thats a benefit!

If you download a movie in 30 seconds or 3 seconds I dont see that as being as important as cutting the time to travel to Australia

Right ya bunch of feckers leave The Blue Toon out of this

It might be Utopian views but The New Lanark project is always something that stuck with me from my school days.

We can but dream of a better life.

Keith it isnt really as the plane could get you somewhere quicker! So thats a benefit!
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A faster internet connection can allow you to download/ upload things quicker. It will allow you to do more in a shorter space in time and gives you a distinctive advantage over competition stuck on 20mbps.

Not agesist super but its understandable that the older generation doesnt have the same grasp of new tech.

New technology of the future will be heavily reliant on high speed net acess. Please read up about 'the internet of things'. High speed net isnt about hamish having a hang shank faster than he does right now its about future technology and putting the infrastructure in place right now.

Fck goin tae australia...(not that I'd get in anyway)

Have ye seen the nazzy basses on customs?

They don't want people goin there

No wonder the UK is lagging behind every other country, GREAT Britain my erse. Maybe 100 years ago but not today.

Feckin infrastructure again!

As for 4g you are aware that when the spectrum is released the lower frequency will travel greater distance and retain higher speeds whilst also improving building penetration! So your Glasgow City centre advice is absolute nonsense!

Also DC-HSDPA is averaging just slightly slower speeds on average than 4G!

nonsene super why do you think only selected carriers are providing it? Because they have the available bandwidth.

Aye infrastructure if it was up to you we would have stopped at horses and carts

The inevitable progression of technology is coming andthe uk most ccertainly isnt ready for it. We'll be losing out again.

But you go on and beat the wee man claiming 54quid a week over the head that will get the country moving again. ......even though they've admitted they got it wrong.

Nice copy and paste work btw

Anything "slightly slower" should be cast out. This is natural selection, economy style.

Chuman - the reason that only EE are providing 4G is they have the bandwidth available at 1800mhz range!

The other bandwidth is being auctioned currently in a similar way to when 3G became available though I would not expect the bids to be anywhere as high!

Also the infrastructure of O2, voda, tmobile, orange and 3 has no relevance to the issue as they can improve it as they see fit! Likewise BT, likewise Virgin!

However with regards to BT they do get bad press in relation to the bb in rural areas whereas virgin get none for not even having cable in Peterhead!!!!!!!!


Oh and if I copied and pasted please provide the link

The British public believe benefit fraud is a big problem. A recent poll by the TUC showed people believe 27% of the welfare budget is fraudulently claimed.

The reality is very different. Last year, 0.7% of total benefit expenditure was overpaid due to fraud, according to the DWP's official estimates. This totalled £1.2bn over the year. Nor is fraud getting worse – even against a background of benefit cuts and long-term unemployment fraud made up a smaller share of the welfare bill last year than it did in 2010/11 or 2009/10.

Indeed, welfare fraud is smaller than accidental overpayments due to error, which totalled £2.2bn (£1.4bn of which due to official error). It's also smaller than the amount of money underpaid to those entitled to it: £1.3bn.

In other words, if we wiped out benefit fraud tomorrow – but also eliminated the errors that deprive people of money to which they are entitled – the welfare bill would grow, not shrink.

In the context of the UK's £700bn public spending, and £150bn+ welfare bill (of which pensions and in-work benefits make up the substantial majority), benefit fraud is a relatively small revenue loss. But how does it compare to another textbook villain: tax avoidance?

Put simply, it is comparatively tiny. HMRC consistently estimates the UK's tax gap – the gap between what HMRC thinks it should receive versus what it actually gets – at more than £30bn per year. Others estimate this is far, far higher.

Of this, even conservative estimates suggest around a sixth – £5bn a year – is lost through tax avoidance, tricks to reduce tax bills which fall within the letter (if not spirit) of the law, but often fall outside what's regarded as acceptable by the public. A further sixth, at least, is estimated to be due to wholesale tax evasion: simply illegally not paying the tax that's owed.

These conservative estimates alone outweigh benefit fraud by a factor of eight, but this time not done in tens (or at most hundreds) of pounds per week by people struggling to get by; but rather by people who could afford to pay more, but prefer not to.

Benefit underpayments save us more money than benefit fraud costs us. By the most conservative estimates, tax avoidance and tax evasion outweighs benefit fraud eightfold. But the constant target of argument – "scroungers", "benefit cheats", and more, isn't the well-heeled middle classes who knock a little off their tax return, or the high-rollers with elaborate offshore schemes.

Instead, it's those at the bottom of society – for the government, perhaps, it makes it easier to sell the public swingeing cuts to the safety net that millions of families, both in and out of work, rely on to get by. For the Mail, it's easier to sell papers by buying into the easy preconceptions of their readers than bothering to challenge them.

Benefit fraud is illegal so whether its 0.7% or 8.9% it should be stopped!

If tax avoidance is legal then there is little to be done other than change the rules! When it becomes illegal then set the dogs on them!!!

Partick Bateman (U14112)

It's not fraud that people have the problem with.

It's taking advantage of a system that was created to help the needy.

Also tax evasion isnt an excuse for benefit fraud! Wrong is wrong! Illegal is illegal!