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Welsh residents cut from fibre optic broadband plans
Homes and businesses from some of the most rural areas of north Wales have discovered they will not be included in the Superfast Cymru fibre broadband rollout. The Welsh government had been issuing £1,000 grants to install...
Read moreWales receives new fibre optic broadband boost
Fibre optic broadband has come to 17 more locations in Wales thanks to the Superfast Cymru rollout project. Towns and villages including Blaenau Ffestiniog, Criccieth, Fairbourne and Harlech will gain access to superfast speeds...
Read moreRutland receives fibre optic broadband upgrade
The region of Rutland has been introduced to fibre optic broadband as part of a rollout project that will upgrade ten exchanges in the area. Digital Rutland is a scheme that is being implemented by Rutland County Council to bring...
Read moreDevon businessman calls for fibre broadband in rural spots
A businessman who runs a Devon digital marketing agency has claimed that a lack of fibre optic broadband in some areas of the county is restricting local entrepreneurs. Alastair Banks set up Optix Solutions in the Marsh Barton...
Read moreGigaclear adds more rural communities to fibre broadband rollout
Gigaclear has confirmed it will roll out ultrafast fibre-to-the-premises broadband to a further three rural communities. Farmoor and Stanton Harcourt in Oxfordshire, and Underriver and surrounding villages in Kent, can look...
Read moreMSP calls for Shetland fibre optic broadband
The MSP for Shetland has attended a meeting with Community Broadband Scotland (CBS) in an effort to bring fibre optic broadband access to the islands. Tavish Scott travelled to Edinburgh to meet with the organisation's bosses...
Read moreCityFibre brings gigabit fibre broadband to Peterborough
Homes and businesses in Peterborough are set to be introduced to a fibre optic broadband network that will provide gigabit speeds. The project will cost around £30 million and comes courtesy of CityFibre, which is an...
Read moreCambridge fibre broadband deal could fall through
Plans for a £20 million investment in Cambridge's fibre optic broadband infrastructure could be compromised after the area's county council described them as "over-ambitious". The project was devised by...
Read moreBuckinghamshire fibre broadband on its way, says project leader
The man behind an initiative that is set to introduce fibre optic broadband access to the majority of Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire says the project is making good progress. Chris Rawson, who is the Project Leader of...
Read moreYorkshire church's congregation get free fibre broadband
Church-goers from the Nafferton area of East Yorkshire have been given free access to fibre broadband thanks to a local initiative. LN Communications, which operates in the market town of Driffield, has supplied Nafferton...
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