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Friday 12 June 2009, 5:56 PM
Digital Britain report delayed?
The Digital Britain report, which is expected to recommend greater broadband access for the whole of the UK, was due to be published on Tuesday 16 June.
However, this publication has been pushed back until later in the week, according to a government press release.
"Lord Carter will present his report to Cabinet on Tuesday before it is published later next week," said the statement. "He will then put in place a detailed implementation plan before the summer recess. We can confirm that he will step down at summer recess with the completion of his work, as originally intended and with the full agreement of the Prime Minister."
Hmm, I'm not sure how the government can justify that last part of its statement -- "as originally intended" indeed -- only an hour ago a DCMS spokeswoman told VNUnet that the government "will not be speculating on who would replace [Carter] if he is to be replaced."
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The delay has been reportedly delayed because Lord Carter had problems uploading the pdf version of the report, after several hours he realised that BT's upload speed was only 'upto' 384Kbps.
He'd thought and seemed to assume from heavy advertising of BT's product he had upto 20Mbps, but an adviser informed him that as a heavy user they'd traffic shaped his connection and speeds quoted only applied to downloads and houses near to the exchange, quote, 'uploads speeds are nowhere near this - where have you been'
It was quoted that a Lord Carter became Angry after being unable to watch 'Gladiator' in its entirety after download throttling was enabled on his account for alledgely downloading the film for free. Quoted as saying 'Who the bloody hell is in charge here - a lowly voice came 'er- aren't you?' A BT phone was thrown towards the advisor, which caused some bruising.
Freedom for information requests have shown a large increase in the cost of Printer and phone replacements directly linked to the offices of No.10, these have now been assigned to the department overseen by Lord Carter.
