Labour gave 2012 as the deadline for Broadband Britain to be in place, giving the whole of the UK 2 Megabits per second. With that deadline fast approaching, the new Government has pushed it back to 2015 citing a lack of “sufficient funding” as the reason. All seem to be in agreement that a universal service of 2 Mbps per second is the minimum required but BT has warned that it will cost billions to get fast broadband to every part of Britain.
Steve Robertson, chief executive of BT Openreach, believes that the goal can not be achieved without around £2bn in public funding.
The government wants the industry to be imaginative in solving that problem. Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt believes that the previous administrations goal was unrealistic and had this to say a recent industry conference:
"I have looked at the provision the Government had made to achieve this by 2012. And I'm afraid that I am not convinced that there is sufficient funding in place.
"So, while we will keep working towards that date, we have set ourselves a more realistic target of achieving universal 2 Mbps access within the lifetime of this Parliament," he added.
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