Please see below a message from District Councillor Vic Thomson:

You will be aware that I have been trying to get Broadband to properties in your Parish for some time mainly through the Government Voucher Scheme. Said scheme is still not anywhere ready and certainly not this year.

At best your parish properties have Fibre Connected to the Cabinet (FTTC) and then copper from the cabinet to properties. The maximum speed with FTTC is 80 mbs and a degrading speed the further you are away from the cabinet plus a service that is often interrupted.

I contacted a company called County Broadband and they have now written to all your residents offering a Gigafast FTTP service. They are a solid company and already have designs drawn up for connecting your parish. They need to get 25% of properties signed up to start the roll out.

With fibre to the property, you get the service you pay for and far less dropouts due to not having copper wire.

They are offering a range of speeds and contract terms even working round any existing contract you may already have for broadband.

This is by far the quickest way to get fibre connected to properties in you Parish.

You can contact Harry Lowman (harry.lowma@countybraoadband.co.uk) for any questions.