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Labour pledges free broadband for all homes and firms in UK

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Re: Labour pledges free broadband for all homes and firms in UK

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Ah, yes, of course, the super-secret 'CuRrEnT FrAmEwOrK PoLiCy' which you can't link to or share? By attributing any authority to what is essentially a loose collection of a government's ambitions, aspirations, pipe dreams and a random wish list of sorts, is rather fanciful, to say the least. The current talk of full-fibre broadband is just a manifesto pledge, which has already been downgraded to upto 'Gigabit broadb…

By “current policy framework”, I meant the way things are working right now. The person I was referring to has been involved with policy making all over the UK, and knows a great deal about the subject. I believe you misinterpreted this as “labour’s detailed plans.” Just wanted to make that clear. If you’d have been civil, I would have been happy to ask my contact for appropriate reading and share them with you. As i…

Firstly, I apologise sincerely, if you felt in anyway whatsoever, that I was being uncivil. Secondly, it is extremely unfair to label someone a 'nasty troll', when they have diligently provided official sources as a basis to conduct a conversation from, versus hearsay.

Last but not least, I accept your offer of sharing the views of your legitimate contact and a source, which can be used to confirm what you say.

Re: Labour pledges free broadband for all homes and firms in UK

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Why suddenly giving 100% of Britain 100mbs BB wont do much for the national productivity. That money would be better spent else where, better vocational training - Rebuilding the countries ability to say be able to make its own pistol or rifle Can you see the spending round where the Postmaster General competing against the other departments for more funding for police or the NHS vs subsidising BB.

I think you can 10x that bandwidth from what I hear.

For every subscriber I think not
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