UK To Provide Net Access To All

Around 9.2 million people in UK are estimated to be living without online connectivity. ‎Price barrier is one probable cause for their inertia and poor motivation.‎

The UK government is considering to offer low-cost computers to persuade millions of ‎people to gain online experience for the first time. A down to earth PC would be made ‎available at £98 and net connectivity would be subsidized to promote their use, under the ‎Race Online 2012 scheme. About 8,000 machines would be on offer in the next 12 ‎months.‎

Race Online 2012, plans to make the UK the first country in the world where each and ‎everyone has web connectivity. Around four million people living in UK are socially and ‎economically disadvantaged. The cheap computers will operate on open-source based ‎software, with a flat-screen monitor, keyboard, mouse, warranty, dedicated telephone ‎helpline and delivery.‎

Around 60 UK online centers offering IT training and Remploy, an organization ‎committed to helping the disabled and disadvantaged section of people operating e-cycle, ‎a computer recycling scheme, would be engaged in selling the low cost PCs.‎ A mobile dongle would be used to access the net, at £9 a month or £18 for three months.‎