Government could help fund ‘very high speed broadband in cities’

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Plans to extend broadband in rural areas could be accompanied by Government-funded upgrades in cities, documents reveal.



The Government’s plans to spend £530m upgrading Britain’s broadband network could involve funding “very high speed broadband in cities”, a civil service job advert has revealed.



In an advert for a Programme Management Office and Finance Lead, the Broadband Development UK unit of the Department of Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) said “BDUK is also taking forward other ministerial priorities such as proposals for very high speed broadband in cities”.



It is the first time that Government has indicated that the priority is not simply to extend Britain’s broadband network to usually rural areas that are currently poorly served or not served at all. “Very high speed” is not defined, but Ofcom says slower “superfast” is above 24mbps. Jeremy Hunt has previously indicated that 90 per cent of the UK will have superfast broadband by 2015.



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