Homes and businesses in Seaton Sluice can now access full fibre services after residents applied for free Government broadband vouchers.
Openreach encouraged community action with a letter asking people living and working in the area to join their Fibre Community Partnership (FCP) programme.
After enough residents committed to ordering a full fibre service, Openreach worked with the local community to build a customised, co-funded network.
Louise Thompson, Openreach’s Regional Engagement manager, said: “It usually takes around 12-18 months from a Fibre Community Partnership Programme being agreed to the first premises ‘going live’ but this has been turned round in less than six months which is a huge achievement.
