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Our stakeholders – communications providers, industry groups, and consumer and business bodies – tell us they increasingly believe that super-fast broadband will bring real benefits and opportunities. However, the evidence to support this is still emerging, even in those countries where these networks have already been built. This means that there is still a lot of uncertainty as to exactly who will want to use super-fast broadband, for what services, and how and where new access networks to deliver these services will be built.
Vision for the future – a mixture of technologies supporting new services
Graham Bennett on 24 September 2008 at 3:01pm
The wording "there is still a lot of uncertainty as to exactly who will want to use super-fast broadband" suggests that super-fast broadband is almost a luxury commodity, rather than a necessity.
But many say the capacity of the existing telephony-based network will soon be exhausted, after which service will become increasingly unpredictable.
Upgrading the network to meet the needs of current users will then surely become a necessity - especially for those in knowledge-based high-tech industries?