The Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (Matt Hancock)
The Government’s manifesto said that “our Universal Service Obligation (USO) will ensure that by 2020 every home and every business in Britain has access to high speed broadband”.
Last year we took the first step towards delivering that commitment when the Digital Economy Act 2017 introduced powers enabling the introduction—and review—of a broadband USO with a download speed of at least 10Mbps.
Today I am pleased to announce that we have taken another important step. Following consultation on the design of the USO last year, we are laying our universal service order, setting the design for our 10Mbps broadband USO. Ofcom will now implement the USO in line with the parameters set out in the Order.
We have also published today the Government’s response to our consultation on the design of the USO, which sets out our plans in detail. It can be found here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/broadband-universal-service-obligation-consultation-on-design.
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