Broadband funding pot (From This is Hampshire)
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Broadband funding pot
8:00am Saturday 4th February 2012 in Andover
HAMPSHIRE is to get £5 million of the £8.4 million that the Government set aside for the region after the county council submitted its revised local broadband plan to Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) in November last year.
And the £5 million Government funding is to be matched by local public and private finance.
The BDUK funding is part of Government plans to ensure that everyone in the country will have access to broadband.
Together with the planned commercial investment, the funding will bring speeds of at least 24Mbs (Megabits per second) to 90 per cent of homes and businesses in the UK and provide universal access to standard broadband with a speed of at least 2Mbs.
See the full story in today's paper.
