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Originally Posted by tvtimes
That's what i was wondering if they were going to pass it onto BT so they can cable the rest of the country. If that is the case then i feel VM sky etc should benefit from this too and that BT should wholesale it. Or VM should be given some of it and they can pay their debt and open up their network to other providers.
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VM are just fine financially. The money won't be passed to anyone companies will be invited to bid for it. The networks built with the money must be open access as BT's networks are now.
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Originally Posted by tvtimes
They said on the news that they are going to tax everyone but only the rich are going to benefit from it?
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The funds will be subsidy for networks for the approximately 30% of the UK population that will not be covered by high speed broadband services through commercial roll out. Cable and BT's new fibre based services will cover about 60%. The remaining 10% are unlucky.
No-one with cable will benefit.