Licence fee money is expected to fund the roll out of super-fast broadband to every community in the UK over the next five years.
Every community in the UK is to be connected to a fibre broadband network by 2015, under plans being unveiled by the government.
The coalition government has pledged to extend the fibre network alongside its plans to get a minimum broadband access to all - including many rural areas that have limited access.
It has earmarked £830 million for the scheme and this is expected to come from the BBC licence fee.
Networks will be extended and 'digital hubs' created in each area and then it will be the responsibility of the residents and local operators to provide the service to individual homes.
BT has already begun investing £2.5 billion into extending its network of fibre cables with plans to have 13m homes connected to the super-fast service (which is classed by Ofcom as above 24Mbps) by 2012. It's been mapping demand with it's Race To Infinity scheme too.
Virgin Media has launched its 100Mbps service in select areas across the country and is rolling it out further into 2011.
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