Given the rapid speed of technological progress, the goal of 2 megabits per second, although it would be manna from heaven today, is likely to look obsolete in three years' time, especially if two thirds of the country is getting 20 or 25 times that speed. Should not the universal service goal be much more ambitious given not where we are now but where we are likely to be in three years' time?
Digital Britain
Proceeding contribution from
Steve Webb
(Liberal Democrat)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 16 June 2009.
It occurred during Ministerial statement on Digital Britain.
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