North Lanarkshire Council (NLC) has this week announced a “groundbreaking digital plan” that, over the course of between 10 and 15 years, will aim to ensure that “all council housing tenants” (36,575 homes) will gain access to “free internet access, a first for any Scottish council“.
The announcement is somewhat vague on the details of the internet service that tenants can expect to receive (i.e. it’s unclear if this will be a fixed line broadband or public WiFi style solution), although the council did say that it would be an “affordable, ultrafast, secure and reliable internet service” (certainly “free” is “affordable“, although it does seem odd to be using both of those terms together).
We have sought more information.
