Local government minister Brian Gibbons agreed £1,500 could be allocated from the Post Office Development Fund to equip two offices with computer equipment.
The partnership with BT Wales, which will match the funding, would allow sub-postmasters and mistresses in rural areas and areas of deprivation to turn their post offices into community broadband hubs.
This would also help increase the number of people using the post office and so strengthen its longer term viability. The Farmers’ Union of Wales approached BT Wales to say access to broadband was critical because of the increasing demand for farmers to submit stock transfer forms online to comply with Defra regulations.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Tom Bodden
Quelle/Source: Daily Post, 07.01.2009
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