Speech by Stephen Timms MP, Minister for Digital Britain, Oxford Media Convention 2010

Britain’s Creative Industries

Oxford Media Convention, 21 January 2010
I am delighted to be here.
All of us derive huge pleasure from the rich and varied output for which this country is responsible – as viewers and listeners, as readers and increasingly online. Around the world, British film, music, computer games, magazines, fashion, design, advertising, architecture fire [...]

Next Generation Fund launched

Rural communities and hard to reach areas who do not have access to next generation broadband will benefit from a share of £1 billion of Government investment said Business Secretary, Lord Mandelson today.
The investment will upgrade the UK’s digital infrastructure to bring super-fast broadband to 90% of the country, essential if the UK is to [...]

Fifty pence worth of controversy

There has been plenty of coverage today of the 50p levy on phone lines, which we proposed in the Digital Britain Report as a means of raising money to support investment in Next Generation broadband.
Stephen Timms stressed in an event at the British Computer Society that it remains the Government’s intention to implement this in [...]

League tables and what they tell us

The appearance this morning of a league table published by the Fibre to the Home Council has provoked a small amount of comment on the UK’s position in relation to other countries in the rollout of next generation broadband.
Like any league table of this sort, the figures can be read in different ways. To some, it [...]

How to pay for NGA (reprise)

Looking at the comments overnight (for which huge thanks), I was reminded of a post way back in March in which I asked how people would pay for NGA rollout. This is of course the most argued topic on this modest blog, although despite all the comments to the contrary, I would argue questions about [...]