Wednesday Feb 16th

 Have some confirmations on meetings. Did research on the broadband infrastructure in NI, which seems to be a bit hit and miss from personal experience. In the report on working from home, most companies said their infrastructure had performed better than expected. In our class group, there were a number of students (and a teacher or two) who didn’t have a broadband signal strong enough to stream a Teams meeting. My dad lives in a semi-rural village and was just offered a Fibre connection for the first time after years of sub optimal broadband speeds. They have terrible transport links there, a bus every couple of hours, so you can see how any family that can’t afford a car is now impacted in terms of access to education.

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