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POCKETS of poor connectivity could hamper the economic recovery for some in Scotland’s largest city, it is claimed. While the Scottish Government’s R100 programme has helped Scotland to where 95 per cent of the country can order a superfast service at a speed of 30mbps and above, rural areas face delays of up to five years for connectivity and urban communities are said to also be facing setbacks. Stuart Patrick, Glasgow Chamber of Commerce chief executive, has raised the issue of small areas where high level connectivity drops out. Part of the problem is down to neighbouring businesses and homes being unable to work together to agree a collective connectivity solution, he said.
A TELECOMS minnow has its sights set on stepping into the breach to connect parts of rural Scotland left out of the R100 programme after demonstrating its capability on a Scottish island. Broadway Partners, set up by Michael Armitage, linked homes and firms on Arran and is now planning to launch a wider Scottish push with hybrid mobile and fibre technologies. In the second part of our special series on connectivity, the founder, who has worked with the Scotland 5G Centre and University of Strathclyde’s department of electronic and electrical engineering specialists, says his company is seeking to employ rural connectivity methods already rolled out in Wales.
Elisabeth Darby and Nicola Smith look at the impact of the death of Victoria s consort.
John Hobshouse, Lord Broughton, woke up in his quite country retreat on Monday, December 16th, 1861 to discover The Papers in mourning - The Prince Consort
died about 11 o clock on Saturday night . It was a very great shock, to Lord Broughton and to the nation as a whole. Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha was only 42 and apparently had not been ill for long. Since his marriage to Queen Victoria in 1840, he had become the mainstay of his wife and family and a respected and imaginative adviser to Government, although the people had mistrusted him as a foreigner and never really warmed to him. Lord Broughton noted sadly that the Prince was an excellent man in all the relations of life - but his merits were not generally acknowledged and he returned to the book he was currently reading. This was Thomas Carlyle s
Lanarkshire care home benefits from broadband improvement during coronavirus pandemic
Flemington Care Home has been operating under pandemic restrictions since March 2020
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Residents of a Cambuslang care home have been able to stay in touch with family members during the latest lockdown after landing a broadband boost.