e-Envoy Wants Better Rural Broadband
Posted: 26th Sep, 2003 By: MarkJ
The governments outgoing e-Envoy, Andrew Pinder, has spoken of how the countryside could be ruined if it doesn't get hi-speed broadband access:
Mr Pinder warned that unless rural areas are provided with broadband access "we're going to end up with an empty countryside".
Mr Pinder went on: "Given that most new employment these days is IT based, we need to have IT connectivity, particularly broadband, for industry to go to a rural place. So, for the health of our rural communities, we just need to have broadband there. If we don't we're going to end up with an empty countryside and that is really bad for everybody - an empty and poor countryside."
Unfortunately the government has a habit of "talking the talking" without "walking the walk", or some such other phrase that conveys an all talk and no action philosophy. More @ Ananova.
Mr Pinder warned that unless rural areas are provided with broadband access "we're going to end up with an empty countryside".
Mr Pinder went on: "Given that most new employment these days is IT based, we need to have IT connectivity, particularly broadband, for industry to go to a rural place. So, for the health of our rural communities, we just need to have broadband there. If we don't we're going to end up with an empty countryside and that is really bad for everybody - an empty and poor countryside."
Unfortunately the government has a habit of "talking the talking" without "walking the walk", or some such other phrase that conveys an all talk and no action philosophy. More @ Ananova.
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