If your home is one of the five per cent not to get superfast broadband under the present Wiltshire Council/government/EU/BT funded scheme, you will be disappointed that Wiltshire will not share in the government’s £10 million fund to support innovative ways to serve the remote areas.
Eight different projects using a range of technologies – from satellite to next-generation wireless, with one scheme using TV ‘white space’ – have been shortlisted to move to the feasibility stage, ahead of deployment later this year.
The winning schemes involve remote areas of Wales, North Yorkshire, North Lincolnshire, Northern Ireland and Scotland, Devon and Somerset, Hampshire, Northumberland and Kent.
With claims that plans are on track to deliver superfast broadband to 95 per cent of the UK by 2017, the government said it was now focusing on exploring ways to reach those premises in the final 5 per cent.
Or maybe you are simply fed up at queuing at temporary red lights while more cable for broadband is laid beside our roads and wish they would use satellite technology.
