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On Sat, 5 Mar 2011, Julian Hall wrote:
'UK government pushes ahead with rural broadband plans. The government is pushing ahead with the second wave of funding for super-fast broadband across the UK.'http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12651847
£50 million allocated to local authorities.. With a quote: Despite announcing the four areas in October - North Yorkshire, Cumbria, Herefordshire and the Highlands and Islands - no firm or technologies have yet been chosen for the areas.The cynic in me thinks that this is just a waste of tax payers money - at a time when local authorities are having to make people redundant on a hugh scale... So you might as well just give the money to BT... However, how much did they get for just Cornwall alone in the last hand-out - £130 million was it?
http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/news/BT-expected-named-163-130m-broadband-partner/article-2704382-detail/article.htmlSo 50 million split over all the local authorities is just pissing in the wind.
Gordon
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