KCOM connects East Cottinghwith to fibre

KCOM has connected rural East Cottingwith Village Hall, on the edge of the East Riding, to its full fibre broadband network giving locals a new focal point for their community.

The village also benefitted from the Government’s Rural Gigabit Voucher Scheme which meant properties in the area could support the cost of installing new connections.

Neil Hobbs, Chairman of East Cottingwith and Storwood Parish Council, said: “We’re a village without a school, without a pub, without a village shop. We don’t have a focal point so the Village Hall has become that.”

“We live in the modern world and there’s no reason why East Cottingwith should suffer from a lack of infrastructure that remote villages historically have done.”