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Gordon, Your cynicism is entirely justified. What they don't tell us is that all parts of the new infrastructure will be 'observable' by a certain government department in Cheltenham. But there are still ways to confuse the system ... Ray. >----Original Message---- >From: gordon+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxx >Date: 05/03/2011 8:36 >To: "DC LUG"<list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Subj: Re: [LUG] Fwd: UK pushes on with broadband plans > >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> >Â50 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 - Â130 >million was it? > >http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/news/BT-expected-named-163-130m-broadband-partner/article-2704382-detail/article.html > >So 50 million split over all the local authorities is just pissing in the >wind. > >Gordon-- >The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG >http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list>FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq