Calls For Clarity Rural Broadband
Posted: 14th May, 2003 By: MarkJ
The former shadow cabinet minister has called on the government to clarify its rural broadband strategy. It's feared that government agencies may be failing to properly consider how their strategies benefit rural areas:
Sir George Young, Conservative MP for North West Hampshire, warned that convincing some government departments and agencies to take part was easier said than done.
"There is a lack of any common understanding across government of how demand for broadband should be met," he said. "The government talks of 'Broadband Britain' and, as always, announces and reannounces many 'initiatives'.
The reality is that we have no real strategy to get ADSL levels of price-performance to people and small firms in the countryside or to those who are simply out of range for ADSL even in the suburbs."
Interestingly all we can see in the VNUNet item is talk, not even those complaining appear to offer up any alternative methods outside of idealistic perspectives.
Sir George Young, Conservative MP for North West Hampshire, warned that convincing some government departments and agencies to take part was easier said than done.
"There is a lack of any common understanding across government of how demand for broadband should be met," he said. "The government talks of 'Broadband Britain' and, as always, announces and reannounces many 'initiatives'.
The reality is that we have no real strategy to get ADSL levels of price-performance to people and small firms in the countryside or to those who are simply out of range for ADSL even in the suburbs."
Interestingly all we can see in the VNUNet item is talk, not even those complaining appear to offer up any alternative methods outside of idealistic perspectives.
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