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Follow on Google News | United Kingdom - National Broadband Policy to 2015The UK's current broadband policy, which will guide the sector's development through to 2015 at least, is to a large measure based on Lord Carter's Digital Britain report, released in June 2009 and since legislated for in the April 2010.
By: China CCM The measures outlined in the Digital Economy Act were updated in July with a government 'roadmap' on how universal broadband is to be implemented in practice. The main milestones include completing the consultation on freeing up infrastructure (November 2010), completing the regulatory impact assessment report (September 2011), and having BT and other providers open their infrastructure to third parties (by November 2011). Following the June 2010 election, the Coalition government appointed Ed Vaizey as Minister for Digital Britain, replacing Stephen Timms who as Financial Secretary at the Treasury had been the acting minister for Digital Britain. Jeremy Hunt, the Minister for Culture, Media and Sport in charge of telecoms and responsible for seeing the delivery of broadband, also has a significant role in policy issues and implementation. Table of Contents 1. Synopsis 2. Financing Universal Broadband 3. Regulating Broadband access 4. Remaining issues 5. background 5.1 Economic considerations 5.2 Data speed as an issue 6. Cost as an issue Table 1-Total broadband subscribers by type-2004-2010 Table 2-Virgin Media subscribers by sector-2007- Table 3-BT retail and wholesale broadband subscribers- Table 4-Advertised and average realised broadband speed-May 2010 # # # ChinaCCM.com is China's leading industry consultancy expert offering industry intelligence and research solution, ChinaCCM Market Research Centre is a research division focusing on professional market survey and industry research. End
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