The UK governments Department for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport (DCMS) has announced that £10 Million will be allocated from the £530m Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) fund to support a superfast Next Generation Access (NGA) broadband pilot in the North West of Wales.

Chancellor George Osborne confirmed, while visiting Wales today, that the funding would be used to deliver broadband in the coastal town of Pwllheli and surrounding areas. The move is said to be part of the Welsh Assembly Government’s (WAG) national delivery plan for the country ('Digital Wales').


The move, which comes amid fresh concerns about the governments slow pace in preparing its first four rural superfast broadband pilots (here), could also be seen as a conciliatory measure to appease WAG's fury after its initial bid was rubbished by the DCMS (here).

Despite those problems the government is still hoping to "ensure" that the UK has "the best broadband network in Europe" by 2015. By contrast the Digital Wales plan aims to make superfast broadband available to all businesses by the middle of 2016, with access for households by 2020. Further details should surface around Easter.