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EU Commission on Rural BB 'Aid'

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  • 03-11-2005 11:45am
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    Sponge Bob
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    The decision was related to rural parts of the UK with small exchanges
    The project also needed the thumbs-up from the European Commission to ensure it met rules governing state aid. The Commission decided that the project could go ahead because the public money "was not likely to cause undue distortion of competition within the Single Market and was therefore compatible with EC Treaty state aid rules".

    Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes accepted that the "rural nature and geographical remoteness of the concerned areas make them an unattractive goal for investment by broadband service providers" and that the "aims at correcting this digital divide by awarding grants to service providers selected through public tenders".

    Story on the Reg

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/02/bt_broadband/

    Eircom will cream themselves but then there is the Irish pairgain issue so I say unto them no pairgain no gain .


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