{"id":3332,"date":"2013-05-22T13:31:43","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T12:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=3332"},"modified":"2013-05-22T13:31:43","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T12:31:43","slug":"dumfries-and-galloway-commit-gbp12-6m-for-superfast-broadband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/05\/dumfries-and-galloway-commit-gbp12-6m-for-superfast-broadband.html","title":{"rendered":"Dumfries and Galloway Commit GBP12.6m for Superfast Broadband"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Policy and Resources committee meeting of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dumgal.gov.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Dumfries and Galloway Council<\/a> in Scotland has confirmed that the local authority will commit \u00a312.6 million to help make superfast broadband ISP connectivity available to 85% of local premises by 2015.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The target, which forms part of the <strong>South of Scotland Broadband Plan<\/strong> but also appears to be below the UK government&#8217;s national 90% coverage aim for the end of 2015, still represents an improvement from the original goal of just <strong>75% availability<\/strong> in each local authority area.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Cllr Ivor Hyslop said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Supporting and stimulating our local economy is one of our Council\u2019s Priorities. Our investment in the rollout of superfast Broadband to 85% of our region illustrates our commitment to assisting homes and businesses across Dumfries and Galloway. Our Council remains committed to working with those communities in the final 15% to ensure that they are not left disadvantaged in this first phase of the project<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sadly the press release didn&#8217;t have anything else to add.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Policy and Resources committee meeting of the Dumfries and Galloway Council in Scotland has confirmed that the local authority will commit \u00a312.6 million to help make superfast broadband ISP connectivity available to 85% of local premises by 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[471,89],"class_list":["post-3332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-bduk","tag-scotland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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