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Rural Broadband Scheme in the UK

Mr_Man · 2005-05-16 12:30:32

The BBC's Working Lunch programme to-day covered a scheme in the UK set up by locals to serve 5 villages. The report can be found at this linkand is 20:15 into the piece. Note the link will only be valid for one day. According to the report the scheme cost around £10k to set up and is resulting in the creation of new…

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The BBC's Working Lunch programme to-day covered a scheme in the UK set up by locals to serve 5 villages. The report can be found at this
linkand is 20:15 into the piece. Note the link will only be valid for one day.

According to the report the scheme cost around £10k to set up and is resulting in the creation of new businesses as a result. It looks like a cross between an Iirish WAN setup and a GBS setup. It is interesting to see that even in the UK such schemes are necessary.

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#2 16-05-2005 2:15pm
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Here is a DSL Variant in a Rural area (near Stansted Airport but still rural)

http://www.trilogynetworks.co.uk/

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