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gt94sss2:

--- Quote ---The Scottish Government has today published a new Digital Strategy, which among other things confirms their plan to make 30Mbps+ “superfast broadband” available to 100% of premises by 2021 via an “outside-in” approach (prioritising public investment for the hardest to reach rural areas).
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More at http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2017/03/scotlands-new-digital-strategy-boost-5g-superfast-broadband-2021.html

Might be interesting for Weaver if the Scottish Government can really achieve an “outside-in” approach but as we all know such an approach means it will cost more and cover fewer people in the short term.

Weaver:
What the government needs to do is give a few hundred people in say Edinburgh 100Gbps links into their premises, that way it would be really cheap to do and the average would go up. It needs to be in Edinburgh or some such place because that would be near the backbone. It's sooo important to keep moving that average up you know, that's what really counts.

It's like mains. Need to give people more and more amps, or is it volts, can never remember the difference. Anyway, getting more of it into them is what's important.

Perhaps delivering courses on maths and 'getting a grip' to politicians would be even cheaper. Changing the metric might be the cheapest development of all.

But is there a chance that some Scottish Government bods have finally got it now? One can get too cynical.

Seriously though, thank you to gt94sss2.

Some unhelpful comments by Mark Jackson. There does seem a lot of hot air in it.

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