Every Herefordshire Housing tenant to have access to free broadband (From Hereford Times)

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  JonnyL wrote:
  The wider context to this story is that the Coalition Government is driving the social housing broadband agenda because they want to encourage tenants to get work by being able to apply for jobs online that aren't necessarily available in their local area.
  
  Here's what (Conservative) Housing Minister Grant Shapps has to say: "I'm calling on every social landlord to look long and hard at how they can help their tenants get online, from offering networks of public internet cafes to providing the technology to log on at home. Internet connectivity should be a necessity, not a luxury, and Government is committed to helping demolish this unacceptable digital divide that is blocking social mobility for millions of council tenants."
  
  What you have to bear in mind is that the Government has no money to spend on this but is urging housing associations to take up the challenge and use their own funding streams to make this possible. It's also worth mentioning that social landlords have seen a massive reduction in the money they get from the state (in excess of 60 per cent), so in actual fact Herefordshire Housing is bucking the trend in providing this service.
  
  Finally, the key word missing from the article is access - the idea is for Herefordshire Housing to work with allpay and other providers on infrastructure. The actual broadband packages on offer will vary.
  
  Jon Land
  Editor
  24housing magazine

  Virtually everyone these days would like to be online, which is fine, but what I find unfair is why some of us have to pay yet others are being offered this service for free (well someone is paying eh...)
  
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