{"id":10018,"date":"2016-04-01T02:06:13","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T01:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=10018"},"modified":"2016-04-01T10:38:39","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T09:38:39","slug":"uk-considers-new-backwards-class-for-slow-broadband-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/04\/uk-considers-new-backwards-class-for-slow-broadband-communities.html","title":{"rendered":"UK Considers New &#8220;Backwards Class&#8221; for Slow Broadband Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Government is reportedly considering the introduction of a new &#8220;<em>Backwards Class<\/em>&#8221; designation for communities that suffer from slow broadband connectivity, which could see related areas benefitting from a string of &#8220;<em>cost and efficiency savings<\/em>&#8221; that are designed to improve local life, connectivity and services.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Apparently the new <strong>Backwards Class System<\/strong> (BCS), which has been praised by politicians for its innovative thinking, would help the Government&#8217;s national <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/bduk\" target=\"_blank\">Broadband Delivery UK<\/a> programme by identifying communities that are most in need of further investment.<\/p>\n<p>Related areas would then benefit through the withdrawal of all public and\u00a0utility services, public transport, as well as voting rights, healthcare and being de-scoped from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/bduk\" target=\"_blank\">Broadband Delivery UK<\/a>\u00a0roll-out plan with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>. It&#8217;s claimed that this system would result in significant cost savings and would thus encourage locals to find their own solutions.<\/p>\n<p>But critics\u00a0suggest that the proposed criteria for areas that could be designated under the new BCS is too wide, excludes politicians (no matter where they live) and goes beyond its claimed focus on broadband. All such accusations have been strongly denied by the Government.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>Proposed Criteria for Backwards Class Designation<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Communities where fixed broadband is slower than 10Mbps and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/satellite\">Satellite<\/a> is the only option<br \/>\n\u2022 Communities with a lot of alcoholics (classified simply as\u00a0areas with a local pub)<br \/>\n\u2022 Communities where watching Youtube videos of cats doing silly things is gobbling up all of the available network capacity, which is now to be classed as devil worship with possible threat to life.<br \/>\n\u2022 London City<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The new system is due to be introduced from early next year, although some community groups claim that it was unofficially launched a few years ago. Critics similarly\u00a0complain that the new system will not deliver upon its promised &#8220;<em>improvements<\/em>&#8221; because many of the areas likely to be designated under the new\u00a0criteria would see no change.<\/p>\n<p>Reports suggest that the savings could be reinvested to build a bigger fence around the Channel Tunnel entrance\u00a0at Calais.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> Obviously this is one of our April Fools \ud83d\ude09 .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government is reportedly considering the introduction of a new &#8220;Backwards Class&#8221; designation for communities that suffer from slow broadband connectivity, which could see related areas benefitting from a string of &#8220;cost and efficiency savings&#8221; that are designed to improve local life, connectivity and services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UK Considers New &quot;Backwards Class&quot; 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