Industry, the government and the public sector must collaborate to make ultra-fast broadband available throughout the country.

This was the consensus from a broadband summit chaired by the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform’s competitiveness minister, Stephen Timms.

The summit has agreed to develop a vision statement to set up the context for future investment and experts will soon be called together to advise the government on how to share learning from high speed broadband pilots currently taking place across the UK.

Timms said: “Ultra-fast broadband is going to be a key future technology that will allow our businesses to innovate grow and create wealth… We must ensure that our industry stays ahead and is well placed to make the most of high tech, knowledge-based economy.”

Virgin Media is due to be the first to launch a 50 Mbps service in 2008, prompting other providers to upgrade to match.

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