Select Committee on Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Second Report


Eleventh Report of the Environment Food and Rural Affairs Committee

Rural Broadband (HC 587)

Session 2002-03

Published 15 July 2003

Government Reply

Twelfth Special Report

Session 2002-03

Published 16 September 2003

Recommendation: We agree with the Countryside Land and Business Association that setting trigger levels for all exchanges, no matter how high they might be, would help rural communities to gauge their prospects of accessing broadband via ADSL. We therefore strongly urge BT to set trigger levels on all exchanges.

Response: Ministers will write to BT to put forward the view that it is in their interests as a company as well as in the local public interest, for them to be open and transparent about trigger levels, but this must be a commercial decision for the company.

Have ministers written to BT in relation to this matter?

Ministers wrote to BT on 16 October 2003.


 
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