Wales allocated 拢56.9 million for broadband roll-out
Funding to help everyone in Wales have access to broadband, with 90% of homes and businesses accessing superfast speeds.
Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt today announced , as part of the Government鈥檚 拢530 million broadband investment fund.
鈥淢any rural and hard-to-reach communities do not have decent broadband access. We must ensure the whole country can join the digital age,鈥� said .
鈥淚f the matches our investment, 90 per cent of the country鈥檚 homes and businesses will have access to superfast broadband.鈥�
鈥淚f you suffer the frustration of slow internet connections, then tell your Welsh Assembly Member that you need broadband. Urge them to make this investment and ensure that Wales is not left behind.鈥�
Best in Europe
The private sector on its own will take superfast broadband (speeds greater than 24 Mbps as defined by ) to around two-thirds of UK households and businesses. Public money is being used to help take broadband to the remaining one third by making it viable for business to invest.
Today鈥檚 announcement builds on the work of the earlier in the year and is part of the Government鈥檚 ambition to have the best superfast broadband network in Europe by 2015, with 90 per cent of homes and businesses in each local authority area having access to superfast broadband and for everyone in the UK to have access to at least 2Mbps.