Minister announces delay to broadband quango launch

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Little to differentiate parties' plans without Network Design and Procurement Group

During a speech at the NextGen09 conference this week, Minister for Digital Britain Stephen Timms announced that the Network Design and Procurement Group, tasked with distributing funds collected f...

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