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[ NNSquad ] [dave@farber.net: [IP] Digital Britain will benefit all, but who will foot the bill?]
----- Forwarded message from David Farber <dave@farber.net> ----- Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 21:35:08 -0500 From: David Farber <dave@farber.net> Subject: [IP] Digital Britain will benefit all, but who will foot the bill? Reply-To: dave@farber.net To: ip <ip@v2.listbox.com> Begin forwarded message: From: Brian Randell <Brian.Randell@ncl.ac.uk> Date: February 1, 2009 6:01:47 PM EST To: dave@farber.net Subject: Digital Britain will benefit all, but who will foot the bill? Hi Dave: >From today's (UK) Observer (the Sunday version of the Guardian): > Digital Britain will benefit all, but who will foot the bill? > Faster internet access for everyone does not come cheap - and the whole > industry may have to chip in, write Richard Wray and James Robinson > > It is a breathtakingly ambitious plan to connect every home in Britain > to the internet by 2012, but who will pay for it? Communications > minister Lord Carter unveiled his plan for a multi-billion-pound, > high-speed broadband network this week, promising to turn the country > into a digital nirvana by the time the London Olympics start. > > Gordon Brown regards it as a national infrastructure project that will > place Britain in the vanguard of the information age, a 21st-century > equivalent of the huge public works programmes that helped lift the US > out of the Depression. . . . Full story at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/feb/01/mediabusiness Cheers Brian -- School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK EMAIL = Brian.Randell@ncl.ac.uk PHONE = +44 191 222 7923 FAX = +44 191 222 8232 URL = http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/people/brian.randell ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ----- End forwarded message -----