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UK: National Broadband scheme for the UK

Announcement

03 Oct 2011

On 20 November 2012, the European Commission decided not to raise objections against the national broadband scheme introduced by the British government. The scheme has a total budget of approximately GBP 1.5 billion (i.e. EUR 1.8 billion) for the years 2012-2015.

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Number of interventions

1

1 certainly harmful

0 likely harmful

0 liberalising

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Implementation date

20 Nov 2012

Revocation date:

30 Jun 2015

Announced: 03 Oct 2011
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According to the UK, "The primary objectives of the scheme are (1) to provide access to NGA infrastructure capable of delivering superfast broadband speeds to as many homes and businesses as possible ...
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