Broadband: Rural Areas

(asked on 9th July 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether any of the BBC's funding for rural broadband rollout has been allocated to extending superfast broadband to households without such broadband.


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Lord Vaizey of Didcot
This question was answered on 20th July 2015

The rollout of superfast broadband is on track and an excellent progress has been made. The Government is committed to achieving 95% coverage of homes and businesses in the UK by the end of 2017. Funding from the TV licence fee has been allocated to support delivery of superfast broadband to premises which would not otherwise have had coverage. It will also support delivery of the government's commitment to ensure that all premises have access to basic broadband with speeds of at least 2Mbps by the end of 2015.

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