Right to reply: Superfast broadband- rural areas remain biggest challenge
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- May 28, 2010
In this right to reply article, Elfed Thomas, CEO of fibre optic infrastructure specialist i3 Group, responds to the coalition agreement and news that Ed Vaizey will oversee rollout of next generation broadband access.
The last few days have been very encouraging with respect to the commitment to superfast broadband that the new coalition Government has shown.
The i3 Group has long supported that the private sector should deliver town and city super fast access as the market is more than capable of delivering this and i3 Group already is.
Rural broadband access has long been recognised as the challenge. It is here that we believe the public purse should be used and it will be interesting to see just what proportion of the licence fee will be utilised and how that will start to tackle this huge issue. i3 Group is also currently developing a commercially viable model to rollout to these areas with limited access.
I still firmly believe that the country needs to embrace fibre to the home rather than fibre to the cabinet otherwise the investment will be outdated relatively soon.”
Elfed Thomas
CEO
i3 Group
