The BBC, or to be more precise the News produced by the BBC, is more important for the image of the UK than the Armed Forces or the Royal Family, according to the director general, Mark Thompson.

This claim comes as the DG attempts to justify the amount of money that the BBC is getting and more precisely, the cost of the BBC World Service.

The new government will be looking at cutbacks and at some point the BBC will be going under the microscope, so maybe this is a move to get the BBC’s point across before it can be criticised.

It is true that the BBC is a global brand, but it is still funded through public money via the TV Licence.

This is where the issue lies and the TV Licence will be fought over during the next few months.

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A recent survey of nearly 1,000 broadband customers has discovered that over half of them aren’t happy with the speed of their connection.

That’s the real world speed, as opposed to the advertised headline speed, of course.

44% said they were happy enough with their broadband performance, although 56% weren’t.

Some people receive a speed well below the advertised performance, as broadband can depend on factors such as the quality of your phone line, and how far away you are from the exchange, amongst other matters.

The poll, which was conducted by ISPreview, also probed the average amount downloaded in a month.

Most folks fell into the more than 30GB bracket, surprisingly enough, with 41% of respondents (some of whom are potentially worried about the new Digital Economy Bill, ahem).

19% of respondents said they were responsible for 10 to 20GB of monthly data usage, 12% didn’t have a clue how much they downloaded, and 12% fell into the 20 to 30GB per month bracket.

Just 16% fell into the under 5GB category.

When asked about the advertised speed of their connection, the majority (59%) said it was an 8Mbps line. 25% had a chunkier 16 to 24Mbps line,with 4% running speeds above that.

So almost two-thirds of the country are on 8Mbps, and close to half of UK citizens download 30GB or more per month.

Expect that download figure to shoot up as the real next-gen connections are introduced later this year, with BT and Virgin rolling out 100Mbps lines in some areas of the UK.

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