Cuts Watch #134: Universal Broadband
The government has postponed the guarantee of universal 2Mbps broadband to 2015. The last government guaranteed that every community would have access to fast broadband connections – 2 Megabytes per second or faster – by 2012. Speaking at a broadband industry event yesterday, Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt admitted that this target was being put back to 2015.
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Jul 17th 2010, 10:12 pm
Shame it wasn’t cut completely. Taxpayers money being used to increase land values, without having a land value tax in place, is the sort of moral hazard that got us here in the first place.