Telecoms 'face next generation network challenges'

Telecoms companies and infrastructure experts must look for new ways to drive the take-up of next generation networks as consumers appear satisfied with their current connections, according to an industry expert.

Ian Fogg, principal analyst at Forrester Researc,h believes that a lack of frustration with the user experience presents the communications industry with a number of questions.

Speaking at the Westminster eForum keynote seminar the Future of Broadband in the UK, he commented: "One of the fundamentally different things this time compared to the switchover from dial-up internet to first-generation broadband is that there isn't a large amount of pent up dissatisfaction with current-generation broadband."

Mr Fogg went on to say that this presents a challenge to the industry in terms of which applications and fibre automatic network routing need to be used to drive new products.

A report published in July this year by Forrester Research suggested that the number of people using the internet around the world will grow more than 45 per cent to 2.2 billion over the next five years.