Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:57 pm on 21 March 2017.
As the Member knows, we are looking for 96 per cent of premises to have access to superfast broadband by the summer. Many of those premises would never have had access without Government intervention because the market was never there. It’s right to point out, of course, the roughly 4 per cent of people who wouldn’t be part of superfast Cymru—they are in particularly remote areas. There will be other alternatives that will have to be explored for them, such as, for example, the use of satellites rather than using the cables. These are issues we are aware of. Even though Superfast Cymru focuses on the 96 per cent, the 4 per cent are not forgotten about.