Every Briton with a fixed-line phone will pay a "small levy" of 50p per month to pay for faster net access.
The national fund created by the levy will be used to ensure most Britons get access to future net technologies. The proposal is part of the Digital Britain report outlined by Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw in Parliament.
The report also includes a pledge to curb unlawful file sharing by giving regulator Ofcom new powers to identify persistent pirates. To encourage take-up of broadband services the government has appointed online entrepreneur Martha Lane Fox as a digital champion.
Mr Bradshaw told the Commons that the government intended to upgrade all national radio stations from analogue to digital by 2015. A "more robust" system of content classification for the video games industry is also promised.
More: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8102756.stm
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The national fund created by the levy will be used to ensure most Britons get access to future net technologies. The proposal is part of the Digital Britain report outlined by Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw in Parliament.
The report also includes a pledge to curb unlawful file sharing by giving regulator Ofcom new powers to identify persistent pirates. To encourage take-up of broadband services the government has appointed online entrepreneur Martha Lane Fox as a digital champion.
Mr Bradshaw told the Commons that the government intended to upgrade all national radio stations from analogue to digital by 2015. A "more robust" system of content classification for the video games industry is also promised.
More: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8102756.stm
