Fast broadband for all by 2020 pledged by David Cameron

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"Culture Minister Ed Vaizey told BBC Radio 4's Today programme:"We want to upgrade the universal service obligation to provide fast broadband speeds of 10Mbps for the very hardest to reach homes and businesses.

"Five years after abandoning Labour's fully-funded commitment to universal broadband, the government's"superfast" broadband rollout is still being hit with delays and at the mercy of a single provider," she said.

It revealed plans to connect 10 million homes to ultrafast broadband by the end of 2020 and raise the minimum broadband speed for homes that cannot get fibre to 5-10Mbps.


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