A MAJOR project aiming to make faster fibre-based broadband widely available across Cumbria has completed its final stage in a famous Lakeland village. Connecting Cumbria, a partnership between Cumbria County Council and Openreach, announced on Wednesday (December 23) the successful completion of the second and final phase of the scheme, which saw the village of Near Sawrey-home to Beatrix Potter’s Hill Top- be the final community to ‘go live.’ Seventy-six homes and businesses in the village can now access some of the fastest broadband speeds in the UK. Speeds of up to one gigabit bit per second (1Gbps) are available thanks to gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premise (FTTP) technology, where fibre is run directly from the exchange all the way to each property.
BEAMINSTER residents are being urged to get behind a bid to bring a faster, more reliable broadband to the town as part of a wider government scheme. Openreach is planning Beaminster s new, full fibre broadband network and is encouraging residents and businesses to consider pooling broadband vouchers available from the UK Government to help extend the build even further. Residents who don’t already have access to a 100Mbps broadband service can check if they may qualify and pledge their voucher on the Connect My Community website. The vouchers can be combined to extend the ultrafast, ultra-reliable network to premises in outlying rural areas which won’t be covered by private investment.
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