Titter ye not…

I was doing some research on FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski when I came across this video of him trumpeting the US National Broadband Plan.  Cynic that I am, I was fully prepared to hurl a few rotten tomatoes at the grandiose, self-serving publicity I expected.  There’s certainly some of that in the speech but there’s a lot of good stuff too.  And it occurred to me, now that Digital Britain appears to have sunk without trace, I have absolutely no idea where the UK’s own ‘broadband plan’ is heading (apart from a few hobby projects in rural outposts).  Maybe Jeremy, Ed & Co. could learn something from the FCC…