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Monday, August 10, 2026

Budget comment: Broadband Investment

Rufus Grig, Chief Technology and Strategy Officer at Maintel below:

“High-speed internet has never been more vital in ensuring that British organisations perform to their full potential.  Philip Hammond’s proposed investment in rural broadband is a huge step forward for all small businesses. However, it cannot stop there. More must be done to manage networking services for British companies if they are to compete on the global stage and drive our economy forward.

Technology has the potential to replace physical workplace interaction in the future. This means real-time traffic on enterprise networks will continue to increase, through voice or video calls, screen-sharing, instant messaging or video casts. These business critical real-time applications, with low tolerance to delays or errors put networks under enormous strain. Maintaining uptime and performance can have a real impact on any companies bottom-line.

Managing rural networking services cannot be ignored. High capacity fibre connections between data centres and managed broadband services for smaller sites and home workers is now an absolute.”

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