Friday, 23 October 2009

Rwanda is more switched on than Britain with its plans for rural broadband - Telegraph

Well, the comparison to Rwanda is not entirely relevant and one has to question why their President feels this is the best spend of his budget. However, here in the UK where the issues of genocide, hunger and massive poverty are not ones our government has to deal with we should be asking why there is not a more forward thinking view to delivery of ubiquitous broadband.

I, for one, would like to see some economic stimulus fund to be made available for Britain's broadband infrastructure. Some should certainly be made available to deliver rural broadband services and it should not go to any of the established telecom operators who are traditionally reticent to address the needs of all the country.

Posted via web from Mark's posterous

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