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The Government has unveiled plans to give the UK the best broadband network in Europe by 2015.
Under the plan called Britain's Superfast Broadband Future, ministers said they will spend £830m to create a digital hub in every community by the end of this Parliament.

The proposed hubs will be linked to neighbourhoods by high-speed connections, extending internet access to every home in the country.

More than 70% of UK households have broadband internet and nearly half have access to a superfast 50-Mbps service.

Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt said the development could bring the number with a superfast connection to 90%.

He said the plan aimed to attract private sector investment into the reliable and secure superfast network and lower existing barriers.

Ministers see this as key to the UK's economic growth and will put £50m into a second wave of pilot projects to see how digital hubs will work even in remote rural areas.

Mr Hunt said: "A superfast network will be the foundation for a new economic dynamism, creating hundreds of thousands of jobs and adding billions to our GDP.

"But it is not just about the economy, around the world there are countless examples of superfast broadband helping to build a fairer and more prosperous society, and to transform the relationship between government and citizens."

He added that shifting Government services online would save billions of pounds of taxpayers' money.

Rural Affairs Secretary Caroline Spelman said that extending superfast broadband to the countryside was "probably the single most important thing we can do to ensure the sustainability of our rural communities in the 21st century".

"Reliable internet access is vital for business and education, and will help to promote social inclusion and improve life in rural areas right across the country."

With consumers using different devices to connect to the internet, the plans also include moves to allow the development of next-generation mobile services.

The plan follows BT's announcement that it expected to spend £2.5bn in the next five years to upgrade broadband access as long as additional funds were made available from the Government.

Bullshit...maybe they'd be better off going back to collecting my rubbish once a week instead of once a fortnight. This project will run over budget, over time and the end result will be a crap waste of money.

Call me cynical, but hey...

I think my dad would rather them cut the fucking overgrown trees and bushes, take out the trash more often and clean up the roads.

More pot holes than mr kipling has pies.

"A superfast network will be the foundation for a new economic dynamism, creating hundreds of thousands of jobs and adding billions to our GDP.

"But it is not just about the economy, around the world there are countless examples of superfast broadband helping to build a fairer and more prosperous society, and to transform the relationship between government and citizens."

He's Right it would, Infact our GDP would shoot up meaning better living standards for all.

Such a shame that this won't happen.


Love for them ot Define "superfast" though considering they thought everyone should have a Internet connection of atleast 2mbps but 2015 or something.

Pfft 2mbps would bearly run youtube fucking short sighted ancient fucks technology is the future it's plain for the eye to see countries grasping that are fucking super rich and yet we are stuck in the stone-age.

That is true we seem to be the slowest moving country
It takes us 5-10 years to get on par with today's Techo

Almost makes me wona move


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This country invented broadband over copperwire?

Considering the population density of the UK, you'd think getting the infrastructure upgraded and updated to a point that it's future proof would be fairly straight forward.

It's not, and who do we thank for that? Ofcom, they have incredibly strict regulation preventing BT from monopolising. So instead all the telco's have to work in unison, and getting them to agree timelines, areas, technology and even the little things like the last few mertres from the telegraph pole or from the cabinet is a logistical nightmare.

All the telco's want to do it, they all want to offer the fastest and most competetive broadband, but all have various problems with one another and ofcom. Thats why this country has big problem getting upto speeds that match even 2nd world countries.
The eastern block has faster broadband than us, sure it's not as widespread, but that area is 20times the size of the UK. But where they have it, it's 5-10mbytes down and 1-2mbytes up. Bytes not bits.