Since most consumers these days prefer to use mobile phones as their preferred voice calling platform, and since indoor coverage is the main test of voice coverage, we might well argue that voice access in the United Kingdom is two orders of magnitude--100 times--worse than home broadband access.
U.K. consumers are far more likely to face problems with voice network coverage than home broadband coverage, a new report by Ofcom suggests. Indoor voice and text messaging availability is about 85 percent to 92 percent.
The percentage of homes unable to get at least 10 Mbps internet access is about 0.3 percent.
That is a two orders of magnitude difference. Internet access keeps getting better. It is not so clear whether voice improvements will happen at anywhere near the rate home broadband gets better.
The point is that we sometimes do not put progress into perspective. At least in the United Kingdom, the home broadband problem pales before the problem of supplying voice and text message access indoors.
About two thirds of U.K. households can buy gigabit home broadband access. Some 96 percent can buy access at a minimum of 30 Mbps.
The bigger problem, by far, is indoor voice and messaging.
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