Don’t pay any attention to the man behind the (broadband) flag

BDUK’s broadband plans seem to be in disarray, with claims that everything is fine – don’t look behind the flag waving please – nothing to see here

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Local? On, your own? Small group? No thanks.

Recently the B4RN (Broadband for Rural North) project has had a ton of Press (thanks in no small part to one @ruskin147).  Their website had around 35k visits on the day that a short item was shown on BBC Breakfast TV, and they have been inundated with emails from well wishers and others who want

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Next Generation Broadband for Wales

The Welsh Government have committed to spending £205m of public funds in a secret contract with BT. This Prezi takes a closer look

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You are supposed to be the First Minister for Wales

This man is the First Minister for Wales. He allowed the employment of a BT senior employee as a Government representative in Brussels to try and solicit ERDF monies for the Welsh Government. BT will receive in the region of £80m of ERDF monies as part of the Next Generation Broadband for Wales project. The

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Broadband in Wales – Your digital future

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Chris Huhne today – Carwyn Jones Tomorrow?

So, Chris Huhne has resigned after pleading guilty to ‘perverting the course of justice’ by getting his wife to take his points for a driving offence a decade ago. Obviously the crux of that particular case, isn’t that he offloaded the responsibility of doing something wrong to another, more that he lied about it (and very publicly)

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Genesis Technical Systems Launches Superfast DSL Rings® to North American and Rural Markets

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Pwllheli, Pwllheli, so easy to con, they’ve done it twice

This time last year the internet was awash with reports that Pwllheli in N.West Wales was going to receive £10m in funding from the Government to deliver superfast broadband. [All links open in a new tab] The Register The BBC CFO World Computer World Public technology.net The Welsh Office PC Advisor The list includes all

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Fibrespeed – the little engine that couldn’t

Some of you may be familiar with the ‘Little engine that could’. An apocryphal tale describing how, despite it’s diminutive size, the loco managed to exceed everybody’s expectations. The Welsh Government seem determined to make sure that the £30m investment that was made with public funding into the Fibrespeed network in North Wales utterly fails to ape this particular

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Welsh Government – Failure is acceptable

In April of 2011, the Welsh Government began collecting information that they would use to inform their Next Generation Broadband for Wales project. The information collecting exercise included a document entitled: Information Collation ExerciseNext Generation Broadband For Wales Which stated aims were summarised as: The purpose of this Information Collation Exercise which is issued on

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