{"id":5960,"date":"2018-10-29T10:25:02","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T10:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itstechnologygroup.com\/?p=779"},"modified":"2023-03-14T10:39:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T10:39:37","slug":"budget-its-response-to-rural-broadband-commitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itstechnologygroup.com\/news\/budget-its-response-to-rural-broadband-commitment\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget : ITS&#8217; Response to Rural Broadband Commitment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThe issue of rural broadband remains as critical as ever. Connectivity shouldn\u2019t have to be a postcode lottery and it\u2019s great news that further significant funds are being earmarked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The current BDUK Local Full Fibre Networks initiatives are exactly the right channels for these funds to enable affordable broadband in local rural communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Upgrading rural public sector sites so they can become \u2018backhaul hubs\u2019 for local community schemes isn\u2019t a new idea- but it\u2019s the right time to refresh it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;ITS has a strong track record in enabling rural communities with affordable fibre and wireless broadband; this approach will enable many more rural schemes to be economically viable and we look forward to playing our part to the full.\u201d<\/p>\n<cite>David Cullen, Director of Strategy and Compliance at&nbsp; ITS Technology Group<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe issue of rural broadband remains as critical as ever. Connectivity shouldn\u2019t have to be a postcode lottery and it\u2019s great news that further significant funds are being earmarked. &#8220;The current BDUK Local Full Fibre Networks initiatives are exactly the right channels for these funds to enable affordable broadband in local rural communities. &#8220;Upgrading rural [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":2377,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstechnologygroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstechnologygroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstechnologygroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstechnologygroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstechnologygroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itstechnologygroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstechnologygroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstechnologygroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstechnologygroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstechnologygroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}