Universal Broadband Speed Policy of the UK Government Criticised

It has been reported that an expert has criticised the target broadband internet access speeds fixed by the government of the United Kingdom for its universal broadband connectivity policy in the country. The expert seems to have flayed the policy on the grounds that the speed provision may be too slow.

The expert that has given her views on the governments universal broadband proposal’s speed commitments is a computer science professor at the Southampton University, called Dame Wendy Hall. According to her, the minimum speed proposal of 2 Mbps planned by the government for its widely expected universal broadband rollout was not speed enough.

Wendy Hall added that the sluggish broadband internet access speeds would be particularly noticeable as an increased number of people opted to enjoy high-definition digital television services, and in the process also urged the government to emphasise fibre optic broadband internet technology.

Wendy Hall further explained that they needed to think harder on the kind of society they were longing for in the age of networks and also warned that it was going to be a lagging one if they did not get that right.

It is also worth mentioning here that many other businesses functioning in the United Kingdom as well has criticised the 2Mbps broadband speed target set by the UK government, mainly for the reason that they already relied on faster internet access speeds to run particular software applications.