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DeveloperThomas Lee
PublisherKolva Ltd
FreeNo
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Britain's broadband is a mess, and you're the small company that says it can do better. Trench real UK streets, wire real homes to fibre, and size your network against the 8pm evening peak — when the whole town logs on at once. Dig up Britain. Sell broadband. Survive the evening peak.
You are an altnet!
Britian's existing telephone company had fifty years to lay the necessary cables and has still not done so. All you need is a van, an overdraft, and a licence to dig.
Broadband Architect is a management sim about the unglamorous machinery of getting fibre into people's houses: trenching the streets of real British towns, arguing with landowners, boring under rivers, and sizing your network against the one moment that actually matters — the evening peak, when the whole town logs on at once and your backhaul either holds or doesn't.
Real towns built from real map data: actual streets, actual buildings, actual premises counts. Plan routes street by street: tarmac costs more than verge, and the A-road crossing costs more than both. Cabinets, feeders, hubs, backhaul — every home that comes on net is a home you physically reached.
Demand has a shape. At 8 pm the town logs on, and a link that looked comfortable all afternoon goes red. Congestion makes unhappy customers; unhappy customers churn, and churn kills small ISPs. Buy capacity too early, and you are bankrupt; too late and you are bankrupt with a bad reputation.
Raise funding, service the debt, make payroll. Manage crews, installers, and the dispatcher who keeps them moving. Take on contracts and missions, chase vouchers, and watch a rival quietly overbuild the estate you were saving for next quarter. Grow from one town to a national footprint, and outlast every other challenger.
The era ramp is real: demand, technology and tariffs move with the calendar. What counts as a fast connection in 2012 is an embarrassment by 2020, and the kit you bought to win the first town will not win the last one.
British utility-works satire throughout. Hi-vis, tea, rain, roadworks signs, and a proud little company doing a heroic mundane thing.
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