The MP for Dwyfor Meirionnydd (North Wales) and Plaid Cymru's leader in Westminster, Elfyn Llwyd, has retaliated after the UK coalition government's Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) rubbished one of the Welsh Assembly Government's (WAG) proposals for a "super-fast" broadband pilot in the region.

Last week's leaked DCMS notice (here) said, "there was more text in one answer box in the Herefordshire proposal than in the entire Welsh proposal," before proceeding to warn about the damage it could do to local competition and some difficulty with replicating the service.


Historically many politicians have often appeared to use "guesswork and subjective assumptions" in their proposals, which won't come as much of a shock to anyone. However, Llwyd does raise an important point about the government's selection process, or lack thereof.

As it stands Wales, which like Scotland has a significantly large base of geographically isolated rural communities, will not be taking part in any of the governments four "super-fast" broadband pilots. They might benefit from the Herefordshire trial but nobody seems too sure about that.