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UK Universal Broadband Speed Plan 'Unambitious', Say Lords

posted by takyon on Wednesday June 06 2018, @07:20PM   Printer-friendly
from the snail-race dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

The government has been told to "up its game" over plans to guarantee a minimum internet speed for all broadband users. Peers said the current Universal Service Obligation (USO), which will entitle consumers to a minimum internet speed of 10Mbps, was "unambitious".

But the government said the USO was a "safety net" and it had "much greater ambitions". "The USO has an important part to play in ensuring that no-one is left behind," it added.

Labour spokesman Lord Stevenson of Balmacara opened the debate by saying the House had previously asked for the USO to specify a download speed of 30Mbps, but the general election halted work on the issue. He said the current USO plans contradict other government initiatives. "Surely the architecture of the USO has to be consistent with the government's productivity plan, the industrial strategy and the national infrastructure plan."

"The argument is that without some ambition the USO itself may become a constraint on all these important challenges," he said.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 07 2018, @03:20AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 07 2018, @03:20AM (#689703)

    That's the difference.
    That's why a Government job has an "inherent wrong".

    Why can't you see that?

    And, when a corporation takes resources at the point of a gun, it's only able to do so because it has gotten a Government to do its dirty work; governments corrupt corporations, not the other way around.

    Why can't you see that?