Survey
Next Generation Access 2008
Status: Report Available
Publish Date:Sunday 20 April 2008
Next Generation Access 2008
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The Broadband Stakeholder Group issued its Pipe Dreams report in 2007 on the prospects for next generation broadband in the UK. In making the point that investment is unlikely to materialise in the absence of demand, it made a formal recommendation demand should be monitored. It said, "....close attention should be paid to the actual growth in demand for bandwidth by households and businesses..." and "...this information should be made publicly available to help inform decision making by stakeholders across the value chain. This should be coordinated by Ofcom." In response to that challenge, CMA worked with Ofcom and Openreach to arrive at a set of questions that could be put to CMA's members.
The aim was to identify demand from enterprise users for next generation broadband in the access network. The survey was carried out in February 2008 and the results offer not only a useful insight into how UK plc regards current and future availability of access technologies, but they also suggest a positive and growing demand.
