Sentence examples for broadband roll from inspiring English sources

"We note the reference to the possible use of an element of the licence fee on broadband roll out.

Decent broadband is key to creating more well paid jobs and more investment and at the moment BT and the government's broadband roll out is failing rural areas.

Unavoidable if the BBC is to be saved from the consequences of a fixed licence fee, reducing in real terms on account of inflation and £400m of government-imposed extra obligations – S4C, World Service, local TV and broadband roll out.

In others – like local television and broadband roll-out – we find ourselves funding government policy initiatives in a way that doesn't feel independent," she added.

In return the BBC was granted financial concessions (indexation of the licence fee and reduction in spend on broadband roll-out and S4C) worth virtually the same amount.

But it has fallen victim to coalition austerity measures, with the World Service losing funding from the Foreign Office and some licence fee cash diverted to a high-speed broadband roll-out programme.

While it's true that Hall negotiated index-linking of the licence fee and the return of money the government previously took for broadband roll-out amongst other things, the longer term impact of Osborne's licence fee deal is troubling.

Nor will this government use public money to stimulate such partnerships because it promises to use any residue of the TV licence fee that was earmarked to pay for the digital switchover to fund broadband roll-out.

Lord Hall believes that in the course of five days he managed to get agreement to make the licence fee fit for the multi-platform age; the burdensome "top-slicing" of the licence fee to provide cash for the broadband roll-out will end; and the licence fee itself will be uprated in line with the consumer price index.

It is part of the next phase of the telecoms firm's £2.5bn fibre broadband roll-out.

It is part of the telecoms firm's £2.5bn fibre broadband roll-out.