In the UK the government has recently announced how it will share the money promised to 10 UK cities to allow them to create superfast broadband networks. London gets the largest share of the £114m pot with £25m, with Belfast getting £13.7m. But what if you live in a rural area of Ireland, North or South – what then?
Superfast broadband – maybe for some, but for most it is just a dream.
Stalker hears that connection speeds outside Middletown are not even middling – even though there is fibre optic cable running under the road between Armagh and Monaghan apparently.
In the UK the government wants to make the country the fastest place in Europe by 2015. Seems like there’s a long way to go yet.
Read more on the Department of Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment (DETI) and BT defending broadband provision in Northern Ireland. www.bbc.co.uk
