Who Will Pay for Broadband Revolution? ; the First in a Series of Articles On the Countdown to Digital Britain Looks at Whether Reality Will Live Up to the Hype
Evening Standard - London › May 24, 2009
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THE Government may be close to meltdown but the communications industry is still keen to hear from one minister. Stephen Carter, the former advertising chief and media regulator, is compiling the Digital Britain Report into the future of broadband, internet, TV and mobile -- which the communications minister is due to publish on or around 16 June.
Lord Carter got a surprisingly warm reception from industry when he first announced plans for Digital Britain in the midst of last October's banking crisis. The idea that the UK needs some state intervention -- or at least direction -- to take advantage of the digital revolution made sense.See the full content of this document
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Who Will Pay for Broadband Revolution? ; the First in a Series of Articles On the Countdown to Digital Britain Looks at Whether Reality Will Live Up to the Hype
More than six months later, with telecom and media companies suffering in the recession, Carter's decisions could prove pivotal. Among the radical proposals is the idea to link Channel 4 and the BBC's commercial arm Worldwide to create a second public-service broadcaster -- a final decision on t...
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