Plans for the Next Generation Fund were unveiled in the Digital Britain white paper released early in 2009.
In Digital Britain the government pledged that all areas of the UK would get 2mbps (megabits per second) broadband by 2012.
That the cream of the civil service does not seem to know this makes my claim that digital Britain has come a long way sound implausible.
"In the UK we are at a juncture where a minister is calling for something tougher than what the original Digital Britain report laid out, but is certainly more in line with what many of the public we suspect always believed the report meant, " he added.
The expected triumph of digital radio has receded into the future: almost three-quarters of radios sold in Britain are still analogue (digital boosters forgot about all those clock radios and car radios).
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The 90 or so post-grads who attended represent the next generation of Britain's digital defenders.
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In Britain, as digital television increases the range of channels around, that decline will accelerate.
The Pirate Party UK - which campaigns for the legalisation of non-commercial file sharing - said the passage of the bill marked "a sombre day for Britain's digital future".
This was not its original vision of a thriving competitive market that would take Britain into the digital age by 2010, and so free up the analogue spectrum to be auctioned for other purposes.
The existence of these sites damages the growth of Britain's burgeoning digital music sector.
Now my vision for the future of Britain is as the digital, low carbon, biotechnology, education, creative industry leader of the world.
This optimism stems in part from the fact that this summer America, Britain and Ireland passed laws making digital signatures legally binding.
In Britain and Italy satellite also has to vie with attractive free digital-terrestrial television services.
Another rival BSkyB is facing on the broadband front is BT Group, Britain's former telecommunications monopoly, which recently launched a digital TV service called BT Vision to all its broadband customers.
Such growth has been fuelled by the expansion of digital-media work, like the design of computer games, in which Britain is a world leader.
The government is aiming to switch off analogue television signals in Britain by 2012, when all homes should be able to receive digital output.
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Google chairman Eric Schmidt has said education in Britain is holding back the country's chances of success in the digital media economy.
In Britain, BSkyB , getting ready for the launch of its 200-channel digital satellite services, ordered 1m decoder boxes.
More than two-thirds of minorities in Britain subscribe to pay-television in order to watch these, according to Digital Media Sales in London.
Britain is currently the only country in the world to enable viewers to receive digital television through three different technologies: standard terrestrial television, cable and satellite.
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