THE agreement to part-fund a £25m improvement of Oxfordshire’s broadband infrastructure with £10m of county council cash and £4m from the Government might raise some eyebrows in these times of cuts.
For a council so cash-strapped, £10m could plug a lot of other holes.
But crucially the safeguard that while the money is going to a commercial enterprise in BT, the money is building infrastructure other service providers will be able to use.
And it can be argued decent Internet access is no longer just a luxury service but a business and social necessity.
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