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The sugar refinery is owned by Tate and Lyle Sugars, a subsidiary of the ASR Group (American Sugar Holdings) so it has no bearing on the Tate and Lyle business that is being taken over.

They can't even trade by phone either. Goodbye Hargreaves.

Not announced yet, usually second half of April and August, paid in June and September

Might have something to do with constant dilution of share value by issuing new shares. Private investors have been skinned

Lemon (a very apt name)

I didn't say Ukraine was winning, I said Russia wasn't winning - a subtle, but important difference, wouldn't you say?

Russia cannot win. Russia might take some territory but Russia will not defeat Ukraine, regardless of what the Americans might, or might not, put forward.

Putin is now so cattle trucked that he invents stories that he believes to be true. Having invaded Ukraine he has spent three years accusing Ukraine of causing the war - sorry, special military operation, musn't annoy the little man must we?

Now he continues to try and absolve Russia of all blame and responsibility for invading a sovereign nation.

The new threat of going to war against Europe is another example of Putin's empty rhetoric. He knows very well that a war against Europe would be the end of Russia because that would immediately invoke NATO to respond and Russia cannot win that war, even with nuclear weapons. It is the last ravings of a desperate madman, a small man with a small man's complex. Russia is a basket case because of Putin and the sooner Russians wake up, grow some balls and oust him, the better it would be for everyone. Ukraine can't win on their own but they won't be defeated by an angry dwarf and his rusty tanks. As for the FXPO share price, a few pence here and there means nothing in the context of Russia's stupidity.

It is the propaganda that you believe. Russia is not winning anything except more and more laughs. Russia cannot defeat Ukraine, it can only try to convince people like you that victory is in their grasp. Three years and still Ukraine fights back. Russia is a pariah state, a terrorist organisation ruled by a small man with a small man's mentality. His only friends are like-minded nutters in North Korea and China. One day Putin will die and the world will celebrate. Hopefully soon, eh?

Amplitude in simple terms can be understood as the strength of the signal, like using a volume control on an amplifier. Increasing the volume has no effect on the actual sound of the music, except it's louder. In the same way the amplitude of a radio signal can be increased by amplifying it but that doesn't change it's frequency or wavelength.

I'm not confused Fleccy. Frequency is the length of the wave from the start of the cycle to the end point. The frequency is measured in cycles per second. In other words, a radio signal travelling at 1 cycle for 1 second has a frequency of 1. The complete cycle of this radio signal will travel 186000 miles through a vacuum in 1 second. A long wave signal of 300khz will complete 300,000 cycles in the same time/distance.

I explained all this to spacemonkey but he doesn't compute.

AI must be down.

Still not understanding, are you spacemonkey?

Attenuation has nothing to do with the wavelength of a radio wave.

Try reading before opening gob.

The distance between the centre and the maximum point of a radio wave's peak cycle at any frequency is the amplitude. The amplitude depends upon the frequency. Long wave radio amplitude is less than short wave ultra high frequency radio waves. The amplitude and the frequency govern the amount of data that the wave can transmit. Hence, mobile frequencies are in the ultra high frequency spectrum., whilst the BBC's cricket match commentary, as every skoolboi do kno, is transmitted on long wave because it travels to far-flung places where VHF and even medium wave cannot get to. All of these radio waves carrying all of this information travel in straight lines. Long wave gets around the world because the amplitude of the wave allows it to bounce between the land and the ionosphere - that's the upper earth atmosphere. This same ionosphere causes problems with ultra high frequency radio waves and GPS systems because of the ionisation that can deflect and disrupt these signals. Long waves just bounce off it.

Attenuation, which you clearly don't understand, is the measure of how much a radio signal is compressed and blocked by solid objects in its path. Attenuation can also be used to reduce the signal intensity to prevent distortion, such as the TV signal from Crystal Palace to the people who live very close by.

Understand now?

Banana in the post for you.

You haven't got a clue what any of this means, have you spacemonkey?

All you are capable of is pasting AI responses that you think are clever but don't understand.

Today's lesson for spacemonkeys - all radios signals travel in a straight line and are reliant on clear line of sight to some degree, albeit at different wavelengths. That means the signal goes up and down, like a wave. This is known as amplitude. The lower the frequency the lower the amplitude and the further apart the waves. Long wave radio is capable of being transmitted over very long distances, they can go around the earth in fact. Long wave cannot be used for broadband because the bandwidth is limited which means it cannot support the transmission of the high data rates required for broadband and mobile telecommunications. So this is why mobile signals are carried on ultra-high frequencies - the amplitude is greater but the waves are very close together giving greater bandwidth but this characteristic prevents long distance transmission. You can learn more yourself.

No AI was used in the production of this information.

OK spacemonkey?

Have another banana.

All true Fleccy.

Mobile has its applications and it can work well in limited circumstances but a single fibre has far more potential.

Also, think of this: if mobile could provide the same capacity and performance as fibre, BT (and many other telecoms companies around the world) could have saved the enormous sums invested in fibre provision and just stuck up more radio masts. There may be a possibility that some new technology will be developed that will enable mobile broadband to outperform fibre but it isn't apparent so far. As you say, HF radio signals lack penetration and that in itself a very limiting factor.

The bottom line is that BT will reap the benefits of fibre in the coming years. That is, of course, unless this government completely collapses the economy. In which case we're all cattle trucked. Perhaps a new chancellor might have some better ideas than the present imposter.

Spacemonkeys need not apply.

"Why don’t you just admit your understanding and therefore biased opinions are all based on a wafer thin understanding."

And this from the AI reliant spacemonkey who can't explain how beanforming (sic) will improve 5G.

My irony meter doesn't go that high.

Have a banana.

Clearly it is very difficulty for you, as is anything requiring critical thinking.

Never mind spacemonkey, you were never destined to climb the evolution tree anyway.

Thanks for all the help with things you have no clue about, spacemonkey.

Any updates on that beanforming stuff?

Dear spacemonkey, you really are a hoot.

So, according to you, understanding how things work equates to technical mumbo-jumbo (note the correct use of the hypen).

Clearly you don't have the intellectual capacity to deal with technical mumbo-jumbo, all you are capable of is asking AI some random questions and taking the random answers you get as gospel.

You should try reading a few books. Books are those things made of paper. Ever read one? Probably not. AI knows all there is to know. At least in your tiny universe.

So, tell us all about this beanforming lark and how it works.

Or did you mean beamforming?

Go on, give us an in-depth explanation of beanforming (or beamforming) and how it will make mobile broadband better.

Dear space monkey, aka Aus,

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing in the hands of an idiot.

Take some time to really educate yourself instead of relying on AI. And when using AI remember to read the details and understand what it actually means.

So, here's your homework: Without using AI (this means researching yourself) find technical information about what 5G is, what it does, how it does it and what the benefits and limitations are.

This should take you a few weeks to get a basic grasp of the technology.

Then come back and we'll discuss your progress.

Until then, stop posting rubbish.

So the customer can't benefit from a better deal because the alt nets haven't got an operational network.

Some business case.

INCA will end up following their South American forebears into extinction. ASAP.

You won't find any gold in a coal mine

Oh, what a surprise...said no-one, ever.

There was never a quick buck in this game.

it was a bad deal for bt shareholders at today's valuation of the properties.

this was all part of christopher bland's fire sale, along with the sale of o2, after the economic disaster brought about by the two idiots, iain vallance and peter bonfield.

we are still suffering from the damage wrought by these two criminals.

if ever there was a case of being rewarded for failure, it was these two. mind you, none of the incumbents who have since taken up the posts have been much of a success either. step forward gavin patterson - a more inept ceo would be difficult to imagine. a former shampoo salesman and part-time male model who knew zilch about anything. a total ****** of the highest order.

rant, rant, rant...i feel better now.