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Posted 29th January 2009 at 4:00pm by Alex Buttle

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The prime minister has backed the proposals of communications minister Lord Carter, who called for country-wide broadband access in the UK.

Gordon Brown said that the plans mapped out in the Digital Britain report, published today (Thursday, January 29th), would be crucial to bringing the nation up-to-speed with the broadband revolution.

The BBC quoted him as saying: "It affects every community in our country who are looking for the best digital infrastructure, access to broadband, that we can offer them.

"We know that every aspect of our lives in local communities - every school, every hospital, every workplace and even every home - will be dependent on the services that the digital network provides."

The newly-released report conceded that regions such as the Far East and western continental Europe have already taken the lead in the development of fibre-optic cable broadband networks.

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  • Charles Strang, 29th January 2009.

    The Scottish National Planning Framework 2, before the Holyrood Parliament at the moment, says ' Research on next generation broadband has concluded that there is currently no business case for Government intervention to support the extension of private high bandwidth services, given that their primary application appears at this stage to be in the field of home entertainment. The current focus is on improvements to digital connectivity in the public sector, including health and education facilities and local authority premises. For example, the Pathfinder projects are delivering high-capacity broadband to all schools (and many other public sites) in the Highlands and Islands and the South of Scotland, with a Government contribution of £70M.' While there may be some readers of the Sunday Post who will be shocked by the idea that the Scottish Government might even consider supporting the development of 'home entertainment' through assisting with faster broadband, I for one can see real advantages at a time when public investment in infrastructure is very timely, and could stop us rural Scots from falling behind the rest of the world as it moves towards 3D imaging and the like. I'm off to have a read of this report since 'home entertainment' doesn't seem to be on my agenda again tonight.

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