Juanita Clark
The Covid-19 pandemic and the national lockdown has highlighted the urgency for digitisation of industry and society and the need to ramp up high-speed connectivity in the era of social distancing.
In March 2020, the digital secretary of the UK announced that the government would legislate new-build homes to have pre-installed fibre infrastructure.
Similarly, in France, Spain and Sweden, we have seen legislation being put in place to redefine the universal service obligation on developers, to deploy optical fibre cable into new-build premises.
Way back in 2014, your organisation believed that fibre broadband increased the value of domestic properties.
The Covid-19 pandemic has placed the value of a high-speed, stable Internet connection into perspective.
