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pspan class=”mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image” style=”display: inline;”img alt=”fibreoptics.jpg” src=”http://uk.gizmodo.com/fibreoptics.jpg” width=”298″ height=”440″ class=”mt-image-none” style=”” //span/p pIt will come as a surprise to precisely no one that Britain is lagging behind much of the world in the broadband speed stakes and complaining about slow downloads and glitchy video streaming doesn’t seem to be geeing things up any./p pBlighty has found a new hero in the form of Professor Christopher Bishop, who has been pretty vocal about the situation recently and claims that far more worthwhile areas, such as health care, education and the environment, are suffering from our lack of fibre optics./p pThe chief scientist at Microsoft Research in Cambridge is lecturing this week on the state of the nation and will be calling for ‘urgency’ in getting a programme in place to sort these connections out sharpish.br / /pimg width=’1′ height=’1′ src=’http://feeds.uk.gizmodo.com/c/552/f/9581/s/2a87f54/mf.gif’ border=’0’/div class=’mf-viral’table border=’0’trtd valign=’middle’a href=”http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Cambridge Professor Calls For Urgent Fix To Nation’s Broadbandlink=http://uk.gizmodo.com/2008/12/31/cambridge_professor_calls_for.html” target=”_blank”img src=”http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif” border=”0″ //a/tdtd valign=’middle’a href=”http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Cambridge Professor Calls For Urgent Fix To Nation’s Broadbandlink=http://uk.gizmodo.com/2008/12/31/cambridge_professor_calls_for.html” target=”_blank”img src=”http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif” border=”0″ //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href=”http://da.feedsportal.com/r/27588737051/u/0/f/9581/c/552/s/44597076/a2.htm”img src=”http://da.feedsportal.com/r/27588737051/u/0/f/9581/c/552/s/44597076/a2.img” border=”0″//a