July 7th, 2009 by Administrator

Lord Carter’s Digital Britain report, which was officially unveiled recently, will have to prove its worth by the government announcing a definite plan of action on how it is going to realize all the ambitious schemes that it has set out to achieve.

The interim version of the report released early this year, with its emphasis on nationwide hi-speed broadband connectivity, seemed like a happy prelude to the final report. However, even the final report was strangely silent on what concrete plans the government would undertake in order to achieve its targets.

The report’s recommendations are no doubt ambitious and released in the interests of the public. These include mobile broadband network on the Tube, new rights to be granted to communications industry regulator Ofcom, fail-safe plans to check the menace of net piracy, hi-speed broadband connection for all, and mobile broadband facility to be given to residents living in areas where fixed-line connections haven’t reached yet. The government is going to spend an astronomical sum of £200 million on revamping and further developing the broadband infrastructure of the country.

Carter’s right hand man Kip Meek’s allocation plans for mobile broadband spectrum have also received due attention in the report, with support towards the adoption of his plans. According to Meek’s plans, the 900 MHz spectrum will stay with Vodafone and O2.

If the report

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