Perhaps for one reason that the English football team has been already qualified for the upcoming World Cup tournament in South Africa next year, few TV operators had moved to basket the available rights. Following this, Perform, a digital agency was appointed by Kentaro to telecast the October 10 match from Dnipro Arena in Ukraine, exclusively on the net.

A broadband internet customer can approach a dedicated website for subscription at GBP 4.99 until October 7. Then onwards, this subscription charge will be increased to GBP 9.99 on Friday and Thursday, before attaining the highest point of GBP 11.99 for the buys on the day of the match.

This footabll match that will start at 4.45 pm, will also be availed on the websites of a chosen lot of UK broadband providers and newspaper websites that include Orange, Virgin Media, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, The Daily Mail, The Times, The Sun, News of the World, The Daily Star and The Daily Express.

The football match that will be complimented by running commentary from David Pleat and Tony Jones, will be presented by former manager of English football team, Sven-Goran Eriksson and James Richardson.

I, half an hour back had the luxury of walking and talking with this man Jaffar Navaz who runs a sound restaurant here. I had realised his culinary skills earlier at his joint while savouring his recommended ‘Roghun Josh’, an indigenous spicy lamb preparation of the Hindukush mountain belt. However, I found out later that our consensus limited within the subject of the Roghun Josh. Particularly for his prejudice against a proposed Hollywood film, Indian Summer that would conceive the controversially romantic saga of Nehru-Edwina Mountbatten relationship. Navaz’s opinion was shaped up on the moral grounds that the great men of history should be spared from the late Paparazzi culture of even digging the graves for sensitive content. And on being asked what was wrong in having an affair with a beautiful lady after all, his reply was simple and terse. He said, “I suspect a slander intended that the great man had been promiscuous for going after another man’s spouse, which could even push the politics of the country into a whirlpool.”

I am obviously unsure if Navaz’s stance reflected the general attitude of the people of India. Nevertheless, I have definitely come across scores of noble souls in that part of the world, who thought that there were more serious aspects attributed to the greats of the past, to be followed as well as maintained ardently. However, only time can say whether the production of the Hugh Grant-Cate Blanchett starrer heeds to the Indian government’s order that the love scenes between characters based on Nehru and Edwina be deleted from the movie.

Meanwhile, in another part of the world – to be precise the land that gave birth to the Mountbattens – a research carried out by a pro-broadband website revealed that the majority of the British broadband customers believed that their UK broadband provider’s service was reasonably secure. The website unveiled the fact that nearly 90 per cent of the UK customers thought they had a reasonably secure broadband connection. Along with this some other figures were also published by the website, such as 85.9 per cent of users believed that they themselves were responsible for their internet security and 78.5 consumers have installed an Anti-virus + Firewall package. I sincerely do not know if there is something common between the Indian Summer controversy of the Indian folk and the internet security concept of the UK folk.

But, while ambling on the pavement of Hollywood Boulevard, I do not know why I am hit by this strange feeling of insecurity, which has almost nullified the euphoria that I had acquired a little while back when I passed through the Walk of Fame here. My insecurity, to be honest, can be linked with my knowledge that a legislation proposal was waiting for me back home that could see my internet connection terminated for the crime of downloading content illegally. Inadvertently as well, because I have a bunch of young friends most of them in their teenage, and I also do not monitor their activity on my system. Never mind, now I can chuck out my insecurity thinking that even if I am left deprived of a home broadband connection, I will still continue as part of the digital Britain. As a respected 50p monthly tax payer of this country, for I do own a copper phone line in Britain.

Out of the 4000 broadband consumers queried across the country, a convincing 44 per cent suggested that reliability was their major concern. It is all the more interesting that the majority of the voters voted for reliability above value for money as well.

The research was conducted by a pro-broadband website Broadband Choices. Other views of the consumers that sprung up in the research were; the belief of 47 per cent of respondents that their broadband providers had not lived up to the promises and the disgruntled moaning of a 70 per cent that their ISPs had lied to them on the connection speeds.

A spokesperson of the website commented that it was surprising to see the customers of broadband networks valuing reliability of their connection ahead of customer satisfaction, broadband connection speeds or even value for money.

He added that it was equally troubling to recognise that about half the total broadband consumers, even after the completion of the ninth year after broadband was introduced in the UK for the first time, claimed that the services of the ISPs had not lived up to their expectations.

The research saw that 34 per cent of the total respondents voted for the connection speeds as 24 per cent of them voted for value for money.

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Timms, along with the de-facto kingpin of his group, business secretary Peter Mandelson seems optimistic that the GBP 175 million annual fund that could be raised from the tax, would also be perfect enough to be used to fund comprehensively, the next-generation of superfast fibre optic broadband services in the UK. However, Timms’s plans that would see the tax being levied upon anyone with a telephone line set up in their household, has caused to raise at least a few eyebrows.

The 50p a month broadband tax comes as part of a number of the recent Digital Britain report recommendations that was compiled by Lord Stephen Carter, the energetic predecessor of Timms. The Digital Britain report was compiled with a view to carry the country towards a different and elevated status in terms of the application of internet technology. It is also worth mentioning here that this report also pledges the delivery of a universal broadband speed – although as low as 2Mbps – by the year 2012.

Although, rumours had been rife in the recent months, regarding the shelving of the broadband levy or leaving it to the next government that emerges after the general elections due for early next year, a recent statement by Timms tends to nullify all those. The statement of Timms was all about a promise that the concept was full steam ahead and nothing had been derailed.

It has been reported that the music industry has decided through voting to back a three-strikes anti-piracy rule, according to which online illegal file-sharers will have their internet connection speeds slowed down following warnings. With this, the music industry expects the rifting music artist of the UK to play down their differences.

It was turbulent times in the UK music industry until now with some leading musicians being divided over the proposal of the business secretary Peter Mandelson to suspend temporarily the internet connections of those users that persistently flouted the law.

When a number of music artists of the country such as Radiohead, Annie Lennox and Billy Bragg criticized the proposal of Mandelson for its excessive stringency, blooming artists such as James Blunt and Lily Allen supported the proposal. As a matter of fact, the breakaway anti-legislation artists had also formed a group dubbed the Featured Artists Coalition (FAC).

It has been reported that a meeting of around a hundred leading artists had taken place last day, mainly with a view to bring about a consensus with in the music industry of the country. It has also been reported that following the conclusion of the meeting, the artists had called on Mandelson to update him with the resolution.Visit broadband comparison site to find latest broadband deals and also read expert broadband reviews.