Digital Britain will benefit all, but who will foot the bill?

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Brian Randell <Brian.Randell () ncl ac uk>
Date: February 1, 2009 6:01:47 PM EST
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Digital Britain will benefit all, but who will foot the bill?

Hi Dave:

From today's (UK) Observer (the Sunday version of the Guardian):

> Digital Britain will benefit all, but who will foot the bill?
> Faster internet access for everyone does not come cheap - and the  
> whole industry may have to chip in, write Richard Wray and James  
> Robinson
>
> It is a breathtakingly ambitious plan to connect every home in  
> Britain to the internet by 2012, but who will pay for it?  
> Communications minister Lord Carter unveiled his plan for a multi- 
> billion-pound, high-speed broadband network this week, promising to  
> turn the country into a digital nirvana by the time the London  
> Olympics start.
>
> Gordon Brown regards it as a national infrastructure project that  
> will place Britain in the vanguard of the information age, a 21st- 
> century equivalent of the huge public works programmes that helped  
> lift the US out of the Depression.

. . .

Full story at:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/feb/01/mediabusiness

Cheers

Brian


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