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'Hard to plan' next-gen internet
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The way to progress with the roll-out of high-speed broadband is difficult to determine, according to Ofcom. Speaking at the next-generation broadband seminar at the Westminster eForum, Ofcom Consumer Panel member Roger Darlington said there are problems in gauging the demand for the technology. He told the audience: "The whole history of communications is [riddled] with an inability to indicate in advance precise demand and there's a sense in which the debate we're having now is exactly the debate we had ten years ago with broadband need." Mr Darlington also said the communications industry would move faster to invest in the roll-out of next-generation broadband, if they had a clear indicator of consumer demand. However, because the industry members cannot precisely tell their customers what the service will be like and how much it will cost, business and residential consumers cannot reveal how high their demand is. The seminar also examined issues such as where the £15 billion cost of deploying the networks will come from and the steps which need to be taken to encourage early growth. Last month, PublicTechnology.net sited research from Mott MacDonald which claimed 84 per cent of Scottish residents want access to next-generation broadband. Azzurri is transforming the way organisations buy and use communications and information technology.  |
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