Business

If there has been any early benefit for business users from the UK Government’s launch of the Digital Britain paper in 2009, it has been the apparently stimulating effect it has had on the enthusiasm of carriers for providing services over fibre.  For some of the larger players, BT in particular, this has been more like a Frankenstein lightning bolt than a gentle prod.  Where once established networking companies talked of ‘providing high speed broadband if there is sufficient demand’, there are now more blanket coverage statements.