County Broadband has expanded its Bespoke Connections Team, which has now added the 200th remote property to the altnet’s core network.
Thu, 19/01/2023 - 15:32
Openreach has now made fibre available to more than 100,000 homes and businesses across Suffolk as part of its £30m county-wide investment.
Work is underway in Ipswich (Kesgrave and Foxhall), Lowestoft, Stowmarket, Sudbury and nearby Woodbridge, where it was announced in May that around 5,000 local homes and businesses would be the next to benefit from Openreach’s full fibre build.
The Openreach team has also extended its network to Decoy Studios in Melton following a request from resident music producer Cenzo Townshend.
He said: “We were really starting to feel the impact of a slow broadband connection. It came to a head when we were trying to finish a very important album, which involved large music files being bounced around between Suffolk, London, and LA.
Director for Openreach’s Chief Engineer team in East Anglia, Phil Royal, added: “We needed to use a mix of infrastructure and think creatively when working out how to get fibre across the Suffolk countryside to Melton from the nearby exchange in Woodbridge.”
“To minimise disruption, we used existing parts of the Openreach network wherever possible. This is not only easier for us, but it keeps things like digging up roads, using temporary traffic lights and moving big heavy equipment down local country roads to a minimum. We know these are the issues that are important to people living in rural areas.
