Not so fast
E-commerce
03 December 2007
The telecoms regulator and BT have both questioned whether it is the right time to speed up UK broadband.
Peter Phillips, the Office of Communication's head of strategy, told the BBC he had doubts about installing fibre optics as a solution.
"We need significant evidence that such a network is required and I don't think it exists yet," he said.
Also speaking to the BBC, the director of equivalence at BT, Peter McCarthy-Ward, said he too was unsure about the demand for faster broadband because "we are not facing large numbers of people today who are constrained by their bandwidth".
Competitiveness minister Stephen Timms recently hosted a forum of industry leaders who discussed how the UK could keep up with world broadband speeds.
BT is hoping to increase the current connection speed by offering ADSL2+ and is considering a partial fibre network for business use.
Remote communities sometimes use satellite broadband to get online - it has a lower connection speed and is not considered to provide a nationwide solution.
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