BBC Proposes Broadband Freeband

Delivering the keynote speech at the Broadband Britain Summit, BBC director of new media and technology Ashley Highfield predicted a new era of content delivery by the end of the decade…

He suggested that the recent uptake in broadband could be accelerated even further if hardware manufacturers, broadband service providers and the BBC were to join forces. He posited a compelling free content and access package, similar to Freeview or the proposed Freesat proposition, but for broadband, suggesting the name Freeband. He said that the BBC would “make a major contribution to providing compelling content for such an initiative”.

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