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Jul 3, 2006
The Somerset
County Council’s Economic Development team is gearing up to introduce its Next
Generation Broadband (NGB) program following the successful implementation of
its Connecting Somerset initiative, a project which saw broadband service being
made available to all towns and villages across the county.
Thanks to a
combination of wireless and fiber-optic cable technology, NGB is expected to
provide higher speed internet communication to homes and businesses. The
council is expecting that the new program will open up a wealth of
opportunities and impact the way education and public services operate and how locals
can use information and the Internet.
“Somerset’s Next
Generation Broadband aims to attract the best broadband suppliers by showing
there is a ready market for the service and in doing so making Somerset one of
the best connected places in the UK to do business, to learn and live,” says
Dave Cornish, Somerset County Council’s Business and Strategy Manager.
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