Wired for Tomorrow: Broadband Spreads Its Net Across Scotland Gbp24m Initiative Helps Link Up Nearly 400 of the Country's Most Remote Communities

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FROM windswept crofts to Highland cottages, some of the most remote parts of Scotland have now been wired into the twenty-first century, it was announced yesterday.

Nearly 400 far-flung communities have been given access to broadband thanks to a scheme, backed by the Scottish Executive, to convert rural telephone exchanges.

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Wired for Tomorrow: Broadband Spreads Its Net Across Scotland Gbp24m Initiative Helps Link Up Nearly 400 of the Country's Most Remote Communities

Under a deal signed with BT in April, the GBP24m initiative has expanded broadband access in those areas - about one-third of all Scottish exchanges - where there were no pl...

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