Broadband availability is "about choice"
15 June 2009 13:48:59
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| Government wants to give all Britons broadband choice. |
Broadband.co.uk made the comments in relation to the government's Digital Britain strategy, which features a number of recommendations, including introducing UK-wide broadband access and creating next-generation networks.
Edd Dawson, managing director at broadband.co.uk, said that increasing the availability of the service is about giving people the choice to sign up to broadband.
"If someone lives in a remote area and can't get broadband and they want it, they are going to be at a severe disadvantage when it comes to work - there are more and more cases of people working remotely," he added.
"If someone in a city centre doesn't want to take up broadband, someone living on a remote island will."
Recent research by Ofcom, the independent regulator for the UK's communication industries, revealed that one in five adults who do not have an internet connection at home plan to sign up with a provider during the next six months.
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