Digital Britain’s funds are “pretty weak”
August 28, 2009
A recent study shows that the government’s proposed £12 million to help fund getting next generation broadband to homes and businesses that do not have ready access underestimates the size of the task.
Chief analyst at Point Topic, Tim Johnson said: “Allowing only £12m to get more homes online looks pretty weak when you consider the size of the task on one hand and the potential benefits on the other.”
The study estimates that over 9 million U.K. homes still have no access to the internet. It also predicts that this number will not fall quickly. Point Topic says that there will still be 6.5 million households with no internet access by 2014.
However the analyst does point out that in the first half of this year the amount of broadband lines in the U.K. rose to 17.8 million, 100,000 lines higher than Point Tropic had initially predicted. Accordingly the company has readjusted its forecasts and now says that they predict that by the end of 2013 there will be 23 million broadband lines across the U.K.
Johnson said that next generation coverage, although minimal at the moment should grow rapidly over the next few years. He said that by 2014 it should make up more that half of all coverage.
Thanks to www.computing.co.uk for the above quotes, for more information on this article please visit their website.
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