Government lays out fast net plan
The UK's culture secretary has been talking tough on broadband in
his first major speech on the issue.
The UK's culture secretary has been talking tough on broadband in his
first major speech on the issue.
Jeremy Hunt said that the previous government's commitment to a "paltry
2Mbps" (megabits per second) universal net speed was "pitifullly
unambitious".
He added that it was "a scandal" that nearly three million households
cannot access even this speed.
He said that his goal was to provide Britain with the "best superfast
broadband network in Europe".
Details on how this would be achieved were scant but could include new
regulation to force water, gas and electricity companies to open up
their ducts.
"The biggest cost involved in rolling out new fibre optic networks is
digging up the roads," he said.
"Cut these costs and, straight away, investing in superfast broadband
becomes a substantially more attractive proposition," he added.
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