Move to spur UK broadband speed

MOVE TO SPUR UK BROADBAND SPEED
[SOURCE: Financial Times, AUTHOR: Andrew Parker]
The British government is willing to consider some form of limited public intervention to spur private-sector investment in ‘ultra-fast’ broadband networks, a minister will say on Tuesday night. Stephen Timms, minister for competitiveness, will use a speech to warn that the UK risks lagging behind other leading industrialized countries that are rolling out super-fast, fixed-line broadband networks. He will be addressing the Broadband Stakeholder Group, a lobby group that warned in April that ministers and regulators had just two years to find ways to encourage investment in high-speed broadband, or UK competitiveness would suffer.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/89e091fc-655a-11dc-bf89-0000779fd2ac.html
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