15 March 2005
Yorkshire and the Humber will join the expanding list of counties boasting fully enabled ADSL exchanges before the end of 2005 according to reports released today.
Broadband will be offered to an additional 4,000 households and 800 businesses as part of the £2.2 million project principally being funded by regional development agency Yorkshire Forward.
BT had previously deemed 24 exchanges to be non-commercially viable on a broadband level but this appears to now be correctable.
Jim Farmery, head of technology infrastructure at Yorkshire Forward, predicts that the development will induce wholesale benefits for the region's social and economical standing, as experienced by a number of other counties in the UK.
Mr Farmery also noted: "The previous lack of established broadband services in rural areas need not be a barrier to businesses setting up and companies expanding.
"At the same time we are supporting the community groups that have worked hard to establish services in these areas and are going to make sure that they are provided with wholesale access if they wish to expand their existing offering."
Yorkshire and the Humber currently has a 96 per cent broadband accessibility level with this project expected to complete the final four per cent.
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