Tuesday 23 June 2009

digital britan

1. Landline users to pay £6 broadband tax
· Fixed-line telephone users will pay £6 a year to fund the rollout of superfast broadband across the country.
· The government wants everyone to be able to receive broadband of at least 2Mbps by 2012.
· The reason for having a £6 tax of all broadband users is to get between £150m and £175m a year to extend ‘next-generation’ of broadband to the "final third" of the country that will not be reached by the market.
· A "small part" of the licence fee digital switchover surplus would fund three ITV regional news pilots in Scotland, Wales and one English region between now and 2013.
· The government has confirmed that it will use part of the BBC licence fee to fund
ITV regional news services.

2. Digital Britain: ISPs will have to cut filesharing by 70% under new proposals
· British ISPs will be required to cut illegal filesharing on their networks by 70% within a year under new powers set to be given to the communications regulator Ofcom.
· The government will empower Ofcom to demand that ISPs collect data about alleged infringers of online rights – by downloading or uploading content without permission.
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3. The internet reacts to Digital Britain
Reaction on Twitter and blogs was fast and furious, quite literally, in some instances to the proposals coming out of the Digital Britain report

our video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPa5a8FaQOs
Their are many differences between tv viewers and internet users, the differences is that an internet user is being seen as an more active user as they go and chose what they want wereas a tv viewer just waits till what they want comes on. acourding to recent research made by google it is said that the new social website have increased the amount of internet users there are.for example the amount of people that login to facebook has increased by 70% over the past year. for the reason that the internet is so free on what you can do websites such as facebook hotmail and myspace make it easy for people to communitccate and get in contact from far places.