Full fibre broadband would bring innumerable benefits to homes and businesses alike, the few people who access it at present talk about it as being invaluable. But, at present, just 8 percent of UK homes are currently able to get this service. Compare that to 70 percent in Spain, for example.
It certainly wouldn’t be cheap - £35bn seems to be the consensus – and private networks would be placed in a difficult situation. As for the idea of taxing US tech giants to help pay for its running costs, well that looks like wishful thinking.
And yet, research has found that a growing number of voters in this election are increasingly open to calls for a radical change in the way the economy is organised.
While today’s ‘fantasy’ economics is unlikely to become tomorrow’s ‘consensus’, how we go about accelerating the roll-out of full fibre remains critical for the future success of UK plc
