This video is from a site called The Connected Kingdom which appears to be sponsored by Google – though it seems more like a government PR exercise. Nevertheless some useful stats on internet use in the UK.
The point of the video is that the UK is a great place to start an internet based business. I just wish I could get the internet at all. At home, in the wilds of Kent, I frequently give up, depending on time of day. Yesterday in N Ireland, it was so slow I couldn’t check a flight time.
Internet on the phone is at best iffy, even in London – as much to do with network congestion as coverage.
What has been noticeable is the impact that first BBC iPlayer had and subsequently BT Vision has had. There was a noticeable slow down locally when BT Vision became available. Maybe we need to be officially declared a deprived zone and internet TV prevented until we get a network upgrade. It’s great that fibre is being rolled out in the network – I’d be happy if the wet piece of string to our local exchange was dried out.
You can see a map of speeds around you on Top 10 or test your broadband speed at sites such as Speedchecker and Speedtest.
Anyway take part in the internet access debate on the Connected Kingdom site, not ours 
There are plenty of discussions on the Connected Kingdom site to join in – take a look
The case studies mentioned in the video are worth a read too. I like mydeco Labs as another good example of crowdservicing and crowdsourcing.
(Thanks to #freshnetworks – a useful daily source of good stuff – which led to me to this)
