So, that’s that, then. A 250-page Government-backed report that provides a road map for our digital lives, from the London Olympics of 2012 and beyond.

Lord Carter’s Digital Britain report contained few surprises, although there were one or two headline-grabbing initiatives.

Most notable is the £6 per year “broadband tax” levied against every household with a telephone line, which will help to build a £200 million war chest to fund the roll-out of next-generation internet services.

The Government has pledged that all households in the UK will have access to 2 megabits per second broadband by 2012, increasing to 50 megabits per second by 2017. Leaving aside, for one moment, the question of whether such speeds can be considered adequate now, let alone in five or more years’ time, the Government’s desire to have a digitally enfranchised citizenship is laudable… more from Telegraph.co.uk