From earlier blogs of mine, regular readers may have picked up (one of) my soapbox issues relating to the poor service we subscribers in the UK get from BT et al re our Broadband access and associated speeds.

The fact is that this poor service in the UK and, despite the TV Ad campaigns recently run suggesting otherwise, the lack of drive behind investing and deploying 20MB+ access for domestic and business users, will limit the growth of internet related business IN THE UK. In my opinion, this will inevitably also inhibit our (UK) ability to compete on the global stage. Dan Cobley, UK Marketing Director at Google, has recently related the Internet as the new Electricity; at least thats my interpretation of what he is saying and that in the not too distant future, the Internet will BE business strategy as opposed to it being PART OF business strategy.

He (and I) may be biased but you can hear for yourselves if you follow this link: http://www.insight.bt.com/NGA/Video/?vid=A1tW8omADko&pname=NGAHome
However, the benefits offered to both business and society by the Internet will be inhibited if we do not create a drive for change now. Oftel recently published a white paper (found at this link: www.ofcom.org.uk/research/telecoms/reports/nga/nga.pdf) pointing out the conflict between various stakeholder groups and the telecom service providers which gives further concern for serious delay in investment and deployment in 20MB+ services.

If you care as much as I do, please get in touch with Oftel and voice your concerns …. they are inviting opinion!