An anonymous reader writes: The UK’s Local Government Association (LGA) is proposing a social tariff to ensure that minimum broadband access of at least 10 Mbps is available to all UK citizens at an affordable price. Last November, Parliament announced that it would begin work on a Universal Service Obligation (USO), which would grant all citizens the right to request broadband service with a minimum 10Mbps. At the time, Prime Minister David Cameron said, “Access to the Internet shouldn’t be a luxury; it should be a right — absolutely fundamental to life in 21st century Britain.” Research by Ofcom in 2014 showed “marked relationships between socio-economic deprivation and [poor] broadband availability in cities”. Similar results have been found in rural areas, which means that the demand for increasing broadband service to a minimum level may be high among people with lower incomes.

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