Communications Minister and former member of Ofcom Lord Carter was due to deliver his much anticipated report yesterday. But a spokeswoman for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport, has now revealed that the report would now appear “before the end of the month,” so any time within the next week, basically.
The Digital Britain Report is set to look at range of issues preventing provision of broadband services across the nation, and will suggest a range of measures designed to ensure that everybody will be at least able to receive basic broadband services (read: speeds of at least 2Mbps) by 2012.
In order to ensure ‘broadband for all’ by 2012, it is though that Lord Carter will propose that the existing Universal Service Obligation which requires BT to provide connections for anyone in the UK who asks for them, will be rewritten, with a new USO involving more than just the leading broadband provider. It is thought that mobile networks will be asked to look at providing broadband solutions to UK homes where it would be either impractical or impossible to provide a broadband conduit through traditional means.
The deployment of dark fibre projects such as the ones to be undertaken in Bournemouth and Dundee by H2O Networks are also thought to also be taken into consideration as a potential solution to the future of Broadband Britain.
Posted by Tom on January 25th 2009 in Broadband
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