BT has had communications union CWU come to its defence after being accused of creating a rural broadband contract monopoly.

Criticism has come from multiple sources including the media and the Public Account s Committee (PAC), who last week published a damming report.

The union said that the telecoms giant was being unfairly blamed for its success in winning all of the available rural broadband contracts as part of the government’s scheme to deliver super-fast broadband throughout the UK.

The union said that BT was the only company who was willing to make the necessary investment in the project and that the size of the investment made the project high risk, as any return would not be seen for years.

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