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Broadband in West Sussex - where is the public money going?
on: Thu 09 of Oct, 2014 [21:16 UTC] (22340 reads)
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Many of you living in West Sussex are probably looking forward to receiving the benefit of the ~£11M of central and county tax payers cash given to BT towards improving Broadband..
Many of you may live in areas Kijoma do not as yet cover. If this is you then you may find it interesting to note the situation in some areas of the county where significant time and money are currently being spent. At least two of these areas already have a fast Broadband service in place and have had for ~9 years with over 96% population take up.
However it was decided ~3 years ago by the County Council that the service (from Kijoma) in those areas did not exist and they publicly declared there was/is NO Broadband in these places via their website and in the media, plus they also put it in writing to us.
So if you find your area is not included in the public funded upgrade of BT's system and you lack an option of Broadband service of 2 Mbps or over then perhaps it might pay to ask why your location is less important than one where another commercial provider already operates?
It is hardly surprising that this apparent abuse of public resource for competitive gain is causing other ISPs such as Kijoma to hold off investing in new areas while this uncertainty exists.
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