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Catch the pigeon! Super-slow broadband and the rural economy

Geoff Riley

16th September 2010

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In a digital age the speed and reliability of broadband access is a major supply-side issue affecting the competitiveness of thousands of businesses in rural areas in the UK. This BBC news article captures the issue well as a race is set up between a digital download and a carrier pigeon. Broadband ‘carriers’ are expected to lose!

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

@tutor2uGeoff

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