Communications Bill

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 8:10 pm on 3 December 2002.

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Photo of Chris Mole Chris Mole Labour, Ipswich 8:10, 3 December 2002

Does my hon. Friend accept, in the context of the argument about the rolling out of broadband to rural areas, that we need to bear in mind the fact that there are fundamental physical limitations to the reach of technologies such as ADSL, based on the competence of existing technology; that it is only with the creation of new technology such as the delivery of broadband by satellite that some of these areas can be reached; and that we shall have these problems again when we have high data rate digital subscriber line and very high data rate digital subscriber line?