Content Is King For The Broadband Stakeholder Group

I agree with Russ - a healthy broadband infrastructure is an enabling feature and not a means with an end. And citizen-consumers will only subscribe if services become more useful. On a regulatory meeting of the Broadband Stakeholder Group (BSG is governments key advisory group on broadband) last week this issue was raised. Most of the attendees had a background in telecoms or IT (everyone but myself…). Despite this disproportion there seemed to be the feeling that policy makers need to re-focus on the importance of content in the next five years.

The BSG reaches the end of its initial round of funding through government in the coming months. It therefore will most likely decide on new targets for the successive initiative and the subsequent five years.

BSG is an open forum. I thus suggest that content providers and - users join it in order to achieve appropriate future regulation. Who knows, maybe phrases such as e-health and e-learning will become fashionable again…And eventually broadband will not only thrive due to illegal file sharing services…