As a follow-on from my previous two pieces, this article from Guardian Media commentator Steve Hewlett on the impact of the BBC iPlayer's success on Britain's broadband infrastructure makes for interesting, if worrying, reading - hope, for the sake of all of us that are ever-more reliant on the Internet, that this is high up the 'to do' list of new Culture secretary Andy Burnham and the UK's internet service providers.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/feb/11/bbc.bbc
I'd e-mail them to flag it up, but I don't want to contribute to making things any shakier...
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