European Commission Approves Welsh Broadband Initiative

Cardiff -- The European Commission announced that it has
approved a Welsh Development Agency (WDA) initiative to provide
14 business parks in Wales with broadband access. The
Commission said the programme was unlikely to distort
competition within the EU. Affordable broadband is currently
unavailable in the region because of its remote location. Welsh
authorities thus decided to support the construction of an open,
carrier-neutral, fibre-optic network linking the business parks. The
construction and management of the network, which will remain in
public ownership, will be tendered to a wholesale operator, the
WDA said.
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