An £18.06 million project to transform broadband speeds for thousands more businesses and residents across Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire was announced recently.
Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire County Councils have signed a contract with BT which will see fibre broadband becoming available to more than 90 per cent of premises in the two counties by the end of March 2016. This is a major step forward for the Connected Counties programme which is run jointly by the two County Councils.
The Connected Counties programme will make fibre broadband, delivering speeds of up to 80Mbps, available to more than 52,500 homes and businesses in the two counties – 38,500 in Buckinghamshire and 14,000 in Hertfordshire – in the next three years. It builds on BT’s commercial roll-out which has so far made the technology available to more than 232,000 homes and businesses in Buckinghamshire and nearly 400,000 in Hertfordshire. Additionally, the project aims to make sure that everyone in Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire has access to a minimum of 2Mbps broadband speeds (fast enough to watch BBC iPlayer).
Improving broadband speeds has long been an ambition of both county councils. More than 11,700 residents and businesses in the two counties registered their interest in receiving superfast broadband following a successful campaign.
There will be a phased approach to the roll-out of superfast broadband, with the first areas predicted to be upgraded in mid-2014.
Connected Counties Superfast Broadband for Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire
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