Government’s 2Mbps USC Broadband Likely to Miss Norfolk
A warning has been sounded by Peter McCarthy Ward, BT’s director for their East of England operations that the commitment of the government to provide a broadband connection of minimum 2Mbps speeds to every household in the United Kingdom by the year 2012, could go begging for Norfolk.
This broadband commitment of the government is today dubbed as Universal Service Commitment (USC), which is in other words known to more people in the country as Universal Broadband or Broadband for All plans.
According to McCarthy-Ward, the broadband for all plans would seldom prosper, even though the money from the proposed 50 pence a month fixed phone line tax and fund for European Regional Development, were put together to fund it. Meanwhile, Norman Lamb, the North Norfolk MP of the Liberal Democrats had promptly responded that this reflected a collective set back of ambition by all that were responsible.
On the other hand, SNF chief executive officer Chris Starkie revealed that he was not surprised by the words of McCarthy Ward. He also made it clear that he had loved to see the rollout of a broadband internet service marked by minimum 10Mbps across the urban and rural areas of Norfolk. Nevertheless, he also refrained from making any specific proposals for how it could be done.
However, the setback that could hit the people here is that the problems faced by Norfolk were hardly unique and many areas around the United Kingdom could be facing more serious issues in their attempts to achieve the 2012 target of the government.
