HYPERFAST broadband has been installed in more than 70 properties in and around a South Lakeland village thanks to government funding and a dash of community spirit. And Heversham parish councillor Iain Richards said another 30 properties were set to be connected in the early part of this year. Volunteers were finally able to give residents in Heversham and neighbouring Leasgill access to higher speeds thanks to the Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme offered by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. The funding allowed a local committee to work with Broadband for the Rural North (B4RN), a non-profit organisation aiming to hook rural areas up to fibre optic broadband.
Next steps in Government’s £5 billion gigabit broadband plan
The government has today set out the next steps in its £5 billion strategy to deliver next generation, gigabit-capable broadband to the entire country.
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22 December 2020
A consultation has been launched on the draft procurement strategy for the UK Gigabit Programme setting out plans to connect the first one million homes and businesses with gigabit speed broadband and maximise coverage in the hardest to reach 20% of the UK by 2025.
Homes and businesses that do not yet have access to superfast broadband will be prioritised. Their speeds will rocket from less than 30 megabits per second to more than 1,000 megabits per second, or one gigabit per second.
SSE strengthens Scotland’s digital infrastructure with next-generation connectivity
High-capacity 100Gbps connectivity services delivered into datacentre intended to future-proof Scotland’s businesses and public sector organisations
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SSE Enterprise Telecoms claims to have given Scotland a boost in its connectivity ambitions with the delivery of critical, high-capacity network infrastructure into the DataVita datacentre, the country’s only purpose-built hyper-secure tier 3 facility.
Throughout the autumn, the Scottish authorities have ramped up development of the national broadband infrastructure. In October, 2,020 homes and business in rural Scotland were given access to more financial help to attain top-of-the-range broadband speeds through a new financing collaboration between the Scottish and UK governments that will see the UK government’s Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme extended north of the bo