Broadband for all may not work

According to the chief executive of Ofcom, Ed Richards, around forty per cent of households in the UK do not have access to the internet either through dial up or broadband.

But what is more of a concern is the fact that over fifty per cent of those households do not want internet access.

This presents the industry and the government with a problem over the broadband-for-all scheme.

Of course there are those households who are unable to pay for a computer and broadband and the government is offering them ways of getting online.

These household are listed as being financially excluded.

However, of those households who do not want internet access, around fifteen per cent could not afford it even if they wanted it.

These households are known as duel excluded.

This is a problem for the government and does not appear to fit into the Digital Britain plan at all.