Seven-year project to bring high speed broadband to more of Cumbria is complete A seven-year project to bring superfast broadband to more than 127,000 homes and businesses in Cumbria has now been completed. Connecting Cumbria, a project run in partnership between Cumbria County Council and Openreach, has been an ambitious scheme to deliver high speed broadband internet connections to communities across Cumbria. The scheme has helped to ensure nearly 95 per cent of all properties in the county can now access higher speed internet connections, of at least 24mbps. Throughout the lifetime of the project, Openreach engineers have put in place 107 exchanges, built roughly 1,000 fibre structures, erected hundreds of new telegraph poles and laid thousands of kilometres of underground fibre optic cables.
Connecting Cumbria broadband project completed
The final phase of rolling out fibre-based broadband across Cumbria has been completed today.
The village of Near Sawrey, the home of Beatrix Potter’s former farm Hill Top, was the last community to ‘go live’ as part of the Connecting Cumbria project.
The scheme has seen Cumbria County Council work closely with Openreach to make fibre-based broadband widely available across Cumbria.
Seventy-six homes and businesses in the village, including Hill Top, which is run as a visitor attraction by the National Trust, can now access some of the fastest broadband speeds in the UK.