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- - "In October 2011 the spending review talked about since the election has now been delivered setting out how savings will be made in order to reduce the deficit left by the previous Government.
One interesting point is the spending proposed for broadband. £530m has been set aside from both the BBC and digital switch-over under-spend. This is to get the “final third” that the big players say is uneconomical to deploy faster services (or even just basic services) to without subsidy.
WE ARE STILL WAITING…. AND WAITING AND WAITING… Probably due to the down load speed….
Cumbria, North Yorkshire, Herefordshire and the Highlands have been selected as trial areas each getting £10m. The aim is to have this topped up with EU funding which generally doubles the amount.
Word has it that Cumbria was not planned to be one of the trial areas but got in on the action thanks to the help of Rory Stewart MP, specifically the Rheged conference he organised.
It will be interesting to see how these trials proceed. Hopefully they won’t just be a formality to hand over large sums to the incumbent operator without a fair process that doesn’t exclude smaller […] "View
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Read @RoryStewartUK's speech to the House of Commons on increasing the mobile coverage obligation http://bit.ly/im56ym 2011/05/20