The Welsh Government is getting very serious about its broadband plans as it published the finalised version of its Wales Infrastructure Investment Plan revealing that it is going to invest a maximum of £400m into boosting the country's broadband infrastructure.

The intention is to deploy superfast broadband (30Mbps or more) to all of the Welsh businesses by 2016 and households by 2020.

The scheme is to ensure that 100 per cent of the country gets access to high speed broadband and at least half to "ultra fast" internet.

At the moment only 30 per cent of Wales has access to superfast broadband and just under a fifth (19 per cent) is left with meagre speeds of up to 2Mbps.

An extract from the Wales Infrastructure Investment Plan (abbreviated WIIP) read that:

"We are seeking to ensure that all residential premises and all businesses in Wales will have access to high speed broadband by 2015, with the ambition that at least half have access to ultra fast broadband services.

"The total value of the Next Generation Broadband investment is anticipated to be up to £400m, combining funding of around £57m from UK Government and £70m from European sources with Welsh Government funding in order to leverage significant investment from the private sector."

Some of you might have noticed that the Welsh broadband deployment plan looks a lot like the EU's Digital Agenda in terms of its timeframe (both to be completed by 2020).