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£57Million from Uk to Wales for Broadband Support

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Posted by Admin on July 17, 2011 – 5:41 pm
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Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced that the UK Government will give £57 million to Wales to improve its broadband coverage.

This includes the £10 million which was pledged by Chancellor George Osborne in February.

Mr Hunt said that once the infrastructure was in place 90% of Welsh homes and businesses should be able to access superfast broadband.A recent Ofcom report showed that Wales has the worst broadband access in the UK.

Of the 22 council areas in Wales twelve had the lowest overall score for broadband access. These areas are mainly rural areas in the  North , mid and West .

Mr Hunt also said that the £57 million was Wales’ share of the £530 million pledged by the Uk Government for the broadband investment fund.

The UK Government  promised in December that all communities in the UK wil have access to superfast broadband  by 2015. This should mean that all should have speeds of 24 Mbps which is a necessity for businesses that depend on the internet for their survival.

South Yorkshires Superfast Broadband Network

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Posted by Admin on December 28, 2009 – 5:37 pm
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Sheffield BroadbandPace a leading Yorkshire digital company is working with technology giant Thales on an exciting project to help provide high speed internet access to people living in South Yorkshire apartment blocks, social housing and sheltered accommodation.

Public funding for the project has been secured by a non – profit company based in Shipley called The Advanced Digital Institute. Pace’s new MultiDweller kit  will be used for the project. The technology will be connected to communial terrestial television antennae to  provide a link to a broadband network for each home . Initially two housing blocks in Rotherhan and Barnsley have been chosen for the project.

Occupants ,who are mainly elderly, will be given computers and hardware, including videophones, which can be used to contact social and health professionals and also relatives.  The success of the scheme will  be monitored in March when more funding should be available to increase availabily on a wider level.

The market for this sort of technology is enormous as there are an estimated 2.5 million households in rented social housing in the UK.

South Yorkshires superfast 25mb broadband has now gone live and will be available accross Sheffield, Rotherhan, Doncaster and Barnsley in 2010 in an investment worth £90 million.

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