Experts say that Digital Britain report is not enough for VoIP services

It has been reported that any changes that are made by the new report known as Digital Britain will not be enough and may even limit many companies in the deployment of services that use technologies like video conferencing and VoIP.

Under the newly released Digital Britain report many businesses that let their staff work at home will encounter problems with the rolling out of technologies such as video conferencing and VoIP.

The report from Lord Carter, which is due to promise nationwide broadband connection speeds of at least 2Mbps for users, will make it far more restrictive for many companies because the boundary that it has set is too low, according to Rob Bamforth, a principle analyst at the IT advisory group Quocirca.

Bamforth said “If you’re a business to consumer CIO [chief information officer] or one whose employees are working from home, you’d have difficulty rolling out IP telephony, virtual private networks and other back-office content access.”

He also added that many companies will “start to struggle” when they begin to move into areas like video and rich media.

This view has been backed up by the director of research for Corporate IT Forum, Ollie Ross who stated that the report is considered to be a “starting point” although it felt “very half hearted” when it came to the measures it talked about putting in place.

With broadband speed targets in other European country being set much higher, like Finland with its 100Mbps target throughout the country, this could lead to the UK falling further behind many of the other European Nations, said Consumer Focus, the Independent watchdog.

The reality of a universal broadband by 2012 had previously been claimed by Lord Carter, but the expense of such a service would most likely be a public one.