Birmingham Broadband Boost
Birmingham City Council is aiming to use it's assets including 230 tower blocks, 95,000 lamp posts and other buildings to help tackle digital exclusion by creating a wireless network with speeds exceeding 3G, Birmingham council seeks £125m broadband network deal, Birmingham council aims to deploy £125m city-wide wireless broadband network.
The city council has advertised for a private company to help develop the six year contract for the network estimated to be worth £125m aimed at tackling digital exclusion.
The improvements planned for Birmingham come at the same time as a focus by the UK Government on supporting rural communities with access to broadband internet connections together with Rural communities to benefit from £8bn broadband funding from the European Commission.
The city council has advertised for a private company to help develop the six year contract for the network estimated to be worth £125m aimed at tackling digital exclusion.
The improvements planned for Birmingham come at the same time as a focus by the UK Government on supporting rural communities with access to broadband internet connections together with Rural communities to benefit from £8bn broadband funding from the European Commission.
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It can be really frustrating, especially if you have an urgent email to send or something like that - especially in this day and age when information is urgent and the speed of a reply needs to be instant. I travel to Brimingham alot for business and have been caught out a few times. I tend to stay in a birmingham serviced apartment as I find that more convenient and usually you have wifi in the apartment, but as soon as you step outside it can be like a black hole. Do you know when this is happening? If the city council intend to carry this out still?