Expert calls for staggered universal broadband plansTuesday, December 8th 2009 The government's universal broadband plans should have been based on a more staggered approach, it has been suggested. A staggered approach should be used to provide adequate universal broadband across the UK, an expert has claimed.
According to James Blessing of the Internet Service Providers Association, the best way to introduce the services would have been to "set a series of goals" that should be met over a period of time, rather than just use the single target of 2Mbps by 2012.
In an interview with ISPreview.co.uk, he outlined that adding further targets of 10Mbps by 2015 and 20Mbps by 2020 would ensure the UK is ready for the future.
"By doing that you set the groundwork for the need to invest in long term solutions rather than trying to fix quick wins," he explained to the website.
Dame Wendy Hall, University of Southampton's Professor of Computer Science, recently claimed that the government's 2Mbps universal broadband plans lack vision, as they do not take into account how technology and the uses of it are evolving.
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