Government to spend £830 million on broadband improvements

It has been announced that the UK government is set to spend eight hundred and thirty million pounds on making improvements to broadband networks, with the aim of getting the best broadband in Europe by 2015.

According to recent reports the government in the UK is set to spend eight hundred and thirty million pounds on making improvements to broadband networks in the country, with the aim of developing the best broadband network in Europe by 2015. The ambitious plans mean that the government has only a few years to get the broadband network in the UK up to scratch, after recent league tables showed that it was lagging behind many other countries.

The plans have been outlined in an action plan that is called Britain’s Superfast Broadband Future, published by Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt. He is keen to develop a “digital hub” in every community in the country by the end of this Parliament. These hubs would allow communities to extend the internet network to every home within the communities.

Hunt stated: “A superfast network will be the foundation for a new economic dynamism, creating hundreds of thousands of jobs and adding billions to our GDP. But it is not just about the economy, around the world there are countless examples of superfast broadband helping to build a fairer and more prosperous society, and to transform the relationship between Government and citizens.”

Rural Affairs Secretary Caroline Spelman is keen to see high speed broadband extended to rural areas, stating that rolling it out to these areas was “probably the single most important thing we can do to ensure the sustainability of our rural communities in the 21st century”.

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Source – Google