UK-based video game industry trade group UKIE issued a statement today praising UK Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Jeremy Hunt's proposal on a high-speed broadband roll out in the United Kingdom. The plan calls for creating infrastructure in the country that would give "every community in the UK" access to "super-fast" broadband by 2015.

"[I]The UK's games and interactive entertainment industry is a highly skilled, digital industry spread throughout the UK[/I]," said Michael Rawlinson, Director General of UKIE. "[I]It needs the technological infrastructure of super-fast broadband to thrive and develop ever more sophisticated forms of interactive entertainment, and to allow new business start-ups to grow and flourish.[/I]" [URL=http://www.gamepolitics.com/2010/12/06/ukie-applauds-government-broadband-plan][B][COLOR=#8e0505]Read More[/COLOR][/B][/URL]

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