Pottering along

摘要

The British love to moan, especially about the supposedly decrepit state of their nation's infrastructure-dirty hospitals, draughty schools and doddery transport networks. This week the Broadband Stakeholder Group (BSG)-a government-and-industry-sponsored talking shop-served up another reason to be gloomy in a report which warned that Britain's internet services were heading for trouble. National competitiveness will suffer without oodles of investment in new, high-tech and high-speed internet connections, the report predicted. Britain's infrastructure could be outdated by 2012.