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Welsh broadband 'notspots' turned hotspots
Monday 7th June 2010, by Daniel King
Broadband is coming to Welsh 'notspots' this summer in a bid to get rural communities connected.
According to reports, the Welsh Assembly and BT have teamed up to deliver the technology to Cil-y-Cwm in Carmarthenshire and Llanfynydd Ystrad Meurig in Ceredigion.
It was recently revealed by the telecoms company that various places in the country can now log on and make use of super-fast, fibre-based broadband, as part of its £2.5 billion investment to bring the speedy network to two-thirds of homes in the UK by 2015.
Some 17,000 households in Caerphilly and 13,000 dwellings in Barry will soon be able to surf the web more swiftly than ever.
However, it's not forgetting the locations that still struggle to get regular access to the internet - known as notspots.
There are around 8,500 such houses in Wales, the Welsh Assembly and BT discovered in 2006, but their latest pledge suggests this will soon be remedied.
Llanfynydd resident and student nurse Maureen Worsley told the Western Mail: "We are one of the few people who have broadband in the village but it is the lowest grade available and unbelievably slow, only very slightly faster than dial-up.
"It puts us at a terrible disadvantage to everyone else."
For that reason, minister for the economy and transport Ieuan Wyn Jones said it is extremely important people who can't get on the internet in this day and age are given the means of doing so as soon as possible.
"Access to the digital world is crucial in a modern global economy and we cannot afford to leave anybody behind," he stated.
