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The Broadband Stakeholders’ Group (BSG) has said that the party that will end up emerging victorious in the 2010 general elections would largely decide the fate of the Digital Britain dream.

The BSG believes private investors would be unwilling to put in money in the broadband rollout plans due to the unpredictable election results and due to the two almost opposite approaches adopted by the Labour and Conservative parties on the issue. On one hand is the Labour party, which has promised the electorate to provide all with at least a 2Mb broadband connection by 2012, and on the hand are the Conservatives who have publicly dubbed broadband rollout as a second rate issue.

Chief executive of the Broadband Stakeholder Group, Anthony Walker, said the Labour party accepts digital divide as a problem and is pushing for a change, while the Conservatives are looking at the market mechanism and hoping for a new entry to increase the value of the market so that it delivers more.

Walker was also quick to point out that all the plans for the implementation and extension of the new age, high-speed internet can come to a standstill if the elections throw up a hung parliament.

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