Summary
Michael Eaton, director of the Welsh Assembly Government's Broadband Wales Unit, outlined the dramatic progress Wales has made. Two years ago, the Welsh enjoyed only 30 per cent availability of broadband. Indeed, Wales had always been a communications backwater, having 5 per cent of BT's customers but generating only 1 per cent of its revenues.
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From Farce to Treasure Trove
In the very first issue of the New Statesman, published in 1913, I George Bernard Shaw fulminated against what he called "the Marconi Farce", the preposterous illusion that telecommunications technology would change our lives for the better. What would he have made of today's drive to use broadband to build a better Britain and, even more intriguingly, what would he have made of the New St...
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