More than 6,300 more Warwickshire homes and businesses will have access to faster broadband by the Spring of next year, BT hve announced.
Henley-in-Arden and Studley are among the latest communities in the county to be included in the roll-out plans for BT’s next generation copper broadband service. They will follow Alcester, Bidford, Claverdon, Hurley, Kineton and Southam which were announced earlier this year.
The BT investment makes available broadband speeds of up to 20 megabits per second (Mbps) – more than double the maximum speeds previously available to the majority of UK homes and businesses.
The technology is already available in more than 20 communities across Coventry and Warwickshire, including: Dunchurch, Kenilworth, Leamington Spa, and Warwick.
By the Spring of next year around 83 per cent of West Midlands premises are expected to have been upgraded.
The new next generation broadband network is available on an open, wholesale basis to all internet services providers.
This investment is in addition to the £2.5 billion BT roll-out of super-fast fibre-based broadband, which is expected to bring even faster speeds to two-thirds of UK premises by the end of 2015.
Councillor Stephen Thirlwell, customer access and partnerships portfolio at Stratford-upon-Avon District Council, said: “We welcome the upgrading of both the Henley and Studley telephone exchanges.
With the installation of the latest broadband technology, it will certainly help to transform the way our residents and local businesses communicate. It is a major boost for homeworkers and will also benefit families who use the internet for so many different things, like accessing public services online and will ensure our communities are not disadvantaged by poor connectivity.”
John Dovey, BT’s West Midlands regional director, said: “Our latest investment in Coventry and Warwickshire marks another major milestone in the development of the county’s communications.
It will deliver an important benefit for local businesses as well as homeworkers, helping to boost their efficiency and competitiveness, while households can make use of the many additional educational and entertainment benefits available with faster broadband.
But these investments are by no means the full extent of our ambition. There are areas - mainly rural, less populated ones - where the private and public sectors will need to work together to make faster broadband available.
We welcome the fact that the UK government has recently allocated funding of hundreds of millions of pounds for next generation broadband and are very willing to work with the public sector to find solutions for these more challenging areas.
BT has the strength and commitment to deliver large-scale broadband projects and we want to play a leading role in bringing faster technologies to our rural communities.”
BT Openreach and contractors are busy around our area installing new fibre distribution cabs and fibre cabling:
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