ninakkida
01-02-2010, 13:07
Superfast broadband could become an unlikely election battleground.
The Conservatives yesterday pledged to bring up to 100 megabits per second internet access to most British homes by 2017.
Computers access is to be key to the election battleShadow chancellor George Osborne said he would allow private investors to pay for better cabling, driving competition.
If that did not work, then part of the licence fee currently earmarked for the digital switchover would be used to bring superfast broadband to the masses.
Both Labour and the Liberal Democrats dismissed the claims, though. Labour accused the Tories of ‘playing catch-up’, having opposed the government’s own plans to roll out broadband.
And Don Foster, Liberal Democrat culture, media and sport spokesman, said: ‘This announcement shows once again the fantasy world of Tory economics. Anyone can promise the earth – what matters is how you pay for it.’
by metro
The Conservatives yesterday pledged to bring up to 100 megabits per second internet access to most British homes by 2017.
Computers access is to be key to the election battleShadow chancellor George Osborne said he would allow private investors to pay for better cabling, driving competition.
If that did not work, then part of the licence fee currently earmarked for the digital switchover would be used to bring superfast broadband to the masses.
Both Labour and the Liberal Democrats dismissed the claims, though. Labour accused the Tories of ‘playing catch-up’, having opposed the government’s own plans to roll out broadband.
And Don Foster, Liberal Democrat culture, media and sport spokesman, said: ‘This announcement shows once again the fantasy world of Tory economics. Anyone can promise the earth – what matters is how you pay for it.’
by metro