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Information Failures: Broadband Market

Geoff Riley

2nd March 2011

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“Confusion is rife and millions of people are not getting what they have been sold” - a damming indictment of the retail broadband market in the UK exposed here by Rory Cellan Jones in a BBC news article and supporting video clip detailing information failures regarding high speed broadband and the dubious ‘up to x mb/s’ adverts that typically only 3% of UK customers experience…a stronger hand from OFCOM is needed to address this information issue. A hat tip to Henry Wingfield for spotting the article.

Broadband penetration in EU countries

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

@tutor2uGeoff

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