Business ISP Star UK has warned that the governments 3 year delay in making a minimum broadband speed of 2Mbps available to everybody in the country by 2015 (USC) will, against a backdrop of "super-fast" Next Generation Access (NGA) solutions, make related services appear "equivalent to dial-up speeds".


Star continues on to warn that a lack of fast broadband is likely to hit some areas more than others. It claims that remote and home workers are faced with challenges such as video conferencing, which currently takes up 1Mb of bandwidth for a single call.

Coupled with HDTV and web applications which have been developed to take advantage of higher bandwidth, Star believes that remote workers will need bandwidth capacity in excess of 5Mbps to allow for productive days.

The ISP adds that 2Mb "certainly will not provide the bandwidth" to enable Cloud computing and deliver the speeds required from the applications which will then be available. The provider calls for the government to use its delay as an opportunity to review the minimum speed, with a view to raising their target.