The governments Technology Strategy Board (TSB), which is partly responsibility for implementation of the Digital Britain strategy, is proposing to run a new trial that would turn three UK villages into high-tech communities with superfast broadband networks by the middle of 2010.

This would apparently do a lot more than merely turn villages into well connected communities with advanced broadband technology. In fact the aim would be to offer services and infrastructure that is not available to the wider Internet.


The government claims it has no plans to scale its idea up to be a significant market presence, instead the development will be more about gathering statistically useful information and putting new systems on trial. No doubt some of the developments will get pushed into the mainstream but it's still too early to know precisely what will happen.