Changing Building Regulations For Broadband
Posted: 25th Mar, 2003 By: MarkJ
The government is considering a change to building regulations in order to make all new homes broadband-friendly by installing cable ducts and chambers into buildings:
The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister has presented the building industry with several possible changes to existing regulations. They would, if implemented, help increase broadband take-up by making it much easier for households to install cables in and around their home, and the most far-reaching would cost the building industry an estimated £70m per year.
The proposed changes are laid out in a partial regulatory impact assessment (RIA), which explains that they are part of the government's drive to improve the take-up of digital services such as broadband.
The RIA considers whether people are being inhibited from moving to high-speed Internet services by the amount of inconvenience involved in installing equipment in their homes.
Unfortunately we won't know of any official outcome until late 2003, yet it's a clever idea and one that should be adopted. More @ ZDNet.
The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister has presented the building industry with several possible changes to existing regulations. They would, if implemented, help increase broadband take-up by making it much easier for households to install cables in and around their home, and the most far-reaching would cost the building industry an estimated £70m per year.
The proposed changes are laid out in a partial regulatory impact assessment (RIA), which explains that they are part of the government's drive to improve the take-up of digital services such as broadband.
The RIA considers whether people are being inhibited from moving to high-speed Internet services by the amount of inconvenience involved in installing equipment in their homes.
Unfortunately we won't know of any official outcome until late 2003, yet it's a clever idea and one that should be adopted. More @ ZDNet.
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