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Cheshire East Council has signed a £4.5 million deal with broadband provider Airband to gigabit capable, full fibre connectivity to homes and businesses within its boundaries.
It will also apply to neighbouring Cheshire West and Chester with the potential to expand to all of the area under the Connecting Cheshire programme, which also involves Halton and Warrington Borough Councils.
The deal involves the provision of full fibre connectivity direct to over 4,100 premises in rural and hard-to-reach areas, with the aim of enabling gigabit speeds. Installation will begin early this year and is expected to be completed by March 2023.
A spokesperson for Cheshire East said the network will be open access to it can be utilised by other operators.
Airband to supply full-fibre broadband across rural Cheshire
One of the UK’s largest UK rural connectivity providers wins £4.5m project to provide ultrafast full-fibre broadband to rural and hard-to-reach areas of Cheshire
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It may be home to the fabulously wealthy satellite towns south of Manchester and have the world-famous Roman city of Chester as its capital, but the county of Cheshire is essentially non-urban, and to improve communications in-hard-to-reach areas in the county, Airband is to supply more than 4,000 homes and properties in the region with full-fibre broadband.
The rural connectivity specialist won a £4.5m contract from Cheshire County Council to provide ultrafast gigabit-capable broadband in a project designed to see the county benefit from improved connectivity.
| 17 January 2021
Cheshire Council has awarded Airband a contract to roll out gigabit-capable, full-fibre broadband connectivity to over 4,000 properties across rural or hard-to-reach areas of the county.
Funded by the UK government’s Connecting Cheshire initiative, which includes Warrington Borough Council, Cheshire East Council, Cheshire West and Chester and Halton Borough Council, the £4.5 million project will start in early 2021 and is expected to last until March 2023.
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“We are excited to have won this contract, commented Airband founder and director Redmond Peel. Our focus has always been on expanding and simplifying digital access for rural communities. With access to high-quality broadband fast becoming a human right, we can’t wait to get started building the network that will give residents of rural and hard-to-reach areas of Cheshire the connectivity they deserve.”