Digital Britain's best-kept secrets

摘要

While its proposed broadband levy and top-slicing have made the headlines, Digital Britain contains much more than these two eye-catching ideas. Taken together, its less-discussed recommendations stand to have as profound an influence over the future of the UK communications sector as the most talked-about proposals.rnDubbed "industrial activism" by the Government, they are for the most part a sensible and coherent range of initiatives to address some clear market failures and, by so doing, to better position the UK to take advantage of the digital future.rnFor me, the key thoughts can be grouped into three broad areas: helping people, helping businesses, and gently shaping the future of the sector.