The leaked note to Wales Online said:

"...it was evident from the proposal that we received from WAG (Welsh Assembly Government) that they had not put much effort into applying for a pilot – there was more text in one answer box in the Herefordshire proposal than in the entire Welsh proposal.

The Welsh pilot proposal was to use the existing FibreSpeed project (where WAG has given money to Geo to create a fibre network in North Wales connecting business parks) as the basis for extending this fibre to a number of areas in North West Wales and then use a mixture of fibre and high speed wireless.

While the extension of an existing project provided benefits in terms of an existing team and a ready made strategic infrastructure investment, the potential lack of competitive tension (as Geo is already the FibreSpeed supplier), the difficulty of applying lessons learned elsewhere (FibreSpeed probably isn’t replicable) and the lack of diversity of lessons learned meant that the other proposals were more attractive as pilots."