Government to Reveal New UK Universal Broadband Policy Before Christmas

The UK coalition governments Secretary of State for Culture, the Olympics, Media and Sport (DCMS), Jeremy Hunt, has confirmed that a full policy aimed at making broadband Internet speeds of at least 2Mb available to everybody in the country by 2015 (i.e. Universal Service Commitment) will be outlined before the end of this year. This will also include more detail on helping to foster the private sector funded rollout of newer "super-fast" Next Generation Access (NGA) broadband services.