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New broadband campaign calls for access for all A new national broadband campaign - Final Third First - was launched today (Thursday 4 March). The campaign - founded by broadband organisations and champions of wider community interests - will lobby the Government to provide effective broadband access for the "Final Third" of the UK which currently lacks this vital infrastructure. The initiative will focus on ensuring that all those in the Final Third will be able to access Government online services by 2012, and then facilitating the move towards next generation access. CLA Head of Rural Business Development Dr Charles Trotman, who chaired the inaugural meeting, said: "The Government's universal service commitment to provide broadband speeds of two megabits per second (Mbps) for all by 2012 will be hard to achieve. "Those living in areas known as the Final Third still receive no proper access to broadband, putting them at a severe disadvantage. This campaign calls for faster action on the progress already made so that everyone can benefit from the Government's increasing array of online services." Mike Kiely of www.BBBritain.co.uk said: "No political party can be serious about transforming public service delivery unless the UK's high-speed data transport infrastructure is available to all and capable of supporting key services predictably." Aidan Paul, Chief Executive of Vtesse Networks and an active campaigner for the Final Third, said: "Our own pilot projects (see: www.vtesse.com/news.asp) are proving to us that with appropriate government attention to fibre rates and infrastructure sharing it would be possible to deliver super-fast broadband to the majority of Final Third residents and businesses. "We welcome the additional focus that the Final Third First campaign will bring to the issue. One third of the population is a very large minority indeed and must not be ignored by policy-makers." Guy Jarvis, founder of NextGenUs UK CIC (http://www.nextgenus.net) and CEO of FibreStream (http://www.fibrestream.co.uk), said: "I am delighted to support the Final Third First campaign and believe that by focusing on this single political issue then those millions currently most digitally disadvantaged stand to reap the benefits this vital fourth utility. "I hope this campaign will also act as a driver for the nation as a whole to swiftly attain, and then maintain, world-class telecommunications fit for 21st century purpose."
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