Conservatives promise rapid internet access for the â??majorityâ?? of UK homes by 2017

Tories pledge 100MB super-speed broadband

MCV Staff 1st February 2010 Publishing

Ahead of May’s general election the Conservative Party has pledged to deliver super-fast 100Mbps broadband to “the majority” of UK homes by 2017 if it is elected to power.

Private investors will pay for the infrastructure needs in urban areas with a proportion of the BBC licence fee will be used to pay for the necessary cabling work in remote rural areas.

“In the 19th Century we built the railways, in the 20th Century we built the motorways – in the 21st Century let’s build the super-fast broadband network that will create hundreds of thousands of jobs for Britain,” shadow chancellor George Osborne.

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