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OK, I admit it – I’m a Brit abroad and I’m addicted to the BBC website.  There’s something very homely about reading stories about the UK, whether it be to commiserate Manchester United’s failure to get over the final hurdle or the latest story about Susan Boyle on Britain’s Got Talent. 

I was flicking through the site this morning when I came across this piece about broadband ‘not-spots’ in the UK and it set me thinking.  There seems to be a growing recognition that everyone needs to have a broadband connection, or even in some quarters that broadband should be considered a ‘right’ for our citizens.  But what is it all about?  While it may be taken as a given in our tech community, why do we think about it in these terms?

Full post as published by Cisco High Tech Policy Blog on May 29, 2009 (boomark / email).