The government has announced that it will undertake a review of broadband in the UK and it's future.

It seems that in recent months most of the talk within the industry is how to provide a larger capacity connection to the UK's internet users, or more specifically how this is going to be funded. Both BT and the government saying that they would let market forces dictate what happens next, rather than investing in the massive cost for new infrastructure.

The review will be carried out by Francesco Caio, who is former chief executive of telecoms firm Cable & Wireless and will focus on how to provide future high speed broadband. This won't be a cheap option as it's estimated that the cost of upgrading the service to BT's 5.6m residential customers would be £1.1bn.

The review will report back to government ministers and Chancellor Alistair Darling in the autumn.