AN extra £10m has been pledged by Oxfordshire County Council to improve broadband.
Under the Conservative administration’s proposed capital budget, the council will match the £3.86m allocated to the county by Government agency Broadband Delivery UK last year.
And an extra £6.14m will be spent on upgrading the Oxfordshire Community Network broadband system for the county’s schools.
Council deputy leader David Robertson said: “The schools network needs to be upgraded.
“A few schools already have superfast broadband, and most secondary schools have 100 megabits per second already.
“The Oxfordshire Community Network is better than anything that schools could get, but it is beginning to look a bit old hat.”
He said upgrading the network would save more than £1m a year. The remaining £7.72m will be spent on projects to roll out superfast broadband across the county.
Mr Robertson said: “We are already coming up with ideas of how we will be able to resolve their broadband connection problems.”
He hopes to get cross-party support for the extra investment.
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