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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.
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.