Broadband
Issue- Peter Mandelson will publish a consultation on the UK's £1 billion investment in super-fast broadband. This will boost the country's global competitiveness in business and communications and bring super-fast broadband to 90 per cent of the country.
Key points
- Faster upload and download speeds, and greater reliability and consistency will bring higher productivity, increased innovation, boost e-commerce and provide greater consumer choice and access to time-saving e-government services.
- The investment will be raised by a duty of 50 pence on all fixed lines announced in the Pre Budget Report and previously announced in the Digital Britain White Paper in June.
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