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Digital Britain: the spectrum implications
Lord Carter’s recently published Digital Britain report outlines two bold projects to ensure the widespread availability of high-speed broadband: the universal service broadband commitment of 2Mbit/s for all households by 2012, and the Next Generation Final Third project. Given the current 'not spots' in DSL coverage and the cost of rolling out next generation fixed networks in rural areas, wireless technologies are likely to play a key role in both projects. The question is whether the actions proposed in the report regarding spectrum are sufficient to achieve these goals?