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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