Tuesday, December 02, 2008
DR meets UK
Paul Goodwin "Digital revolution set to change lives" 11/13/08
According to the article, in Doncaster, a little town in South Yorkshire, England, has made an alliance to the Digitial Revolution the high speeds of new media, also known as the internet. throughout homes and businesses will all be interconnected with "next generation high speed" broadband service. The project manager of this plan states that this change will "boost the local economy and radically alter day-to-day life".
This £12,000 plan is going to create over 5,000 jobs cross South Yorkshire over the next ten years. They will replace the cooper telephone lines with fiber optic cable. What this means is that this will offer more flexibile working patterns and education from home. Enhanced video conferencing and 3-demensional applications are other benefits of this. With this, an individual can visit a doctor's surgery to get advice without leaving the comfort of their own home. Peter Dale, DMBC's director of development, states:
"The opportunity to invest now gives us a jump (on other counties]. It will attract investment and help support existing businesses. The cost of not doing this will be greater than doing it."
According to the article, the plan will hopefully start the new replacement wiring in January.
