An enquiry into UK broadband speeds is to be done by MP’s who are on the Commons Business and Enterprise Committee.
Following the Digital Britain Report that was launched a couple of weeks ago that said that a USC (Universal Service Commitment) of at least 2Mb broadband should be available for everyone in Britain by 2012.
The enquiry is going amongst other things to look at whether or not that this 2Mb limit is actually ambitious enough, and when you compare it to South Korea who’s government has set a minimum broadband speed of 1GB then it does show up how much slower we are aiming for.
Also to be looked at is the 50p per month/£6 per year levy to be added to everyone with a fixed copper phone line to help raise funds to pay for next generation broadband for the estimate 30% of the country that are in areas that it is not financially feasible for BT or Virgin Media to roll out to.
BT are already starting the roll out of fibre broadband to start to replace their now ageing copper network that currently most use to receive their phone and broadband.
Broadband users can test the speed of their broadband with our broadband speed test.
Anyone wanting to send any correspondence for the enquiry should visit this page for details http://www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/berr/becpn47_0809.cfm