Letter: Struggling to connect
Connecting Shropshire's newly published strategy for superfast broadband roll out, dooms, like its first strategy document, several thousands of people in Shropshire to no decent broadband access, to the "wasteland" of being "under review" for at least another three years.
So it runs a public consultation – online – about this strategy when the people stuck in the "review wasteland" are acknowledged as having inadequate access to the internet. How then are they meant to object to being put in the "review wasteland"?
How does this meet with the government (2016 January) consultation guidelines which says consultation must address the stakeholders the policies will impact?
Oh, and by the way, in Shropshire's broadband strategy document by the way, it says they have no regulatory or contractual control on companies implanting their broadband strategy.
So what exactly does being "under review" mean for these companies?
Regular meetings?
It all sounds a bit vague and woolly doesn't it?
Matthew Trustman, Twitchen
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