Scotland's plans to procure a fibre-led next generation broadband network received its first public outing last week at the international NextGen 2012 conference in Edinburgh.
The announcement soon afterwards that the £250 million fund of public-sector money would be supplemented by an extra £32m from the UK Government's Broadband UK (BDUK) fund will have further cheered those who believe in the technology's ability to transform economic opportunity as well as social provision for remote and disadvantaged communities.
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