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18:42 27th August 2009
The UK is lacking the national infrastructure to encourage broadband use, according to internet experts Broadband.co.uk.
By introducing a more coherent strategy, both businesses and individuals would benefit, the site claimed.
The website's editor Edd Dawson noted that newer fibre-based connections would help improve the current provision, however he criticised the lack of a any "real national joined-up infrastructure plan".
The result of this shortcoming, he explained was a "patchy" supply of broadband across the country.
Mr Dawson warned that the announcement of new investment in a fibre-link system by York Data Services "should not draw the focus away from the need for a national policy to roll out a unified infrastructure for the whole country."
The UK's current telecoms infrastructure is largely owned by BT, which is upgrading its connections by installing fibre optic cables.
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