UK Gov turns down BT’s £600m rural broadband offer

The UK Government has finally revealed its plans to connect the unconnected, as it turns down BT’s bold plans in favour of a universal service obligation (USO) which puts the power in the hands of the consumer.
The new plans will effectively give consumers the right to demand a broadband connection which would deliver download speeds of 10 Mbps by 2020, irrelevant as to where they are based in the UK. Such regulation is built on the same lines as rules dictating practices in the fixed-line