Another political pledge for Broadband for all

Yet another pledge for Broadband for every home in the UK, only this time the pledge is for “Super Fast Broadband for every UK home by 2020”

Gordon Brown promised “Super-Fast broadband will be available to every home in the UK by 2020”

This sounds very familiar, in 2009 Conservative leader David Cameron promised Super Fast Broadband to all consumers in the UK within the next 10 years.

Either way, this is very exciting news for all homes in the UK, and especially for those in more rural locations that have never been able to have access to Broadband and are still relying on dial up connections or the more expensive SDSL.

With Government involvement I think we could finally see every UK home connected, MP Jim Knight said “the government had to intervene to ensure Super-Fast broadband reached remote areas of the country”

He told BBC Radio 5 live: “You offer incentives to the market to get to those areas that otherwise they’re not going to be able to make a profit out of going to.”

“By having universal access to this very high bandwidth which allows more streaming video, allows people to watch TV and listen to radio online, it means that we can also release the business and employment potential of this”

“If you just leave it up to the market it’ll only go to into the cities, it won’t get out into rural Cornwall for example without some form of public subsidy.”

The Labour Government is planning to add a monthly 50 pence levy to all landline bills to help subsidise the network upgrade ensuring that rural homes will not be left out.

The Conservatives have answered this saying “we will force BT to open up its network to competition, and if necessary use cash from the BBC licence fee to fill in gaps in the fast broadband network”

The Tories have promised that if they come into power, the UK will have the fasted Broadband in Europe!

Either way, we love the idea of Super Fast Broadband For All

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