The government has cancelled its broadband aggregation
scheme after only 1.75 percent of the projected savings materialised
A government initiative to save £200m on the UK's £1bn broadband bill using
regional aggregation bodies to pool public sector buying power has led to savings
of just £3.5m to date.After spending an initial £15m on setting up the scheme
the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is to stop the funding and close
the national aggregation board.
The future of the regional aggregation bodies -- known as adits -- will now
be left in the hands of each of the Regional Development Agencies.
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