Broadband boost for Seaton Sluice as new technology arrives ultrafast
The first sets of homes and businesses in Seaton Sluice can now access ultra-reliable full fibre broadband, just months after Openreach asked the community to join its Fibre Community Partnership programme.
In April, the company encouraged people living and working in the seaside village to apply for free Government broadband vouchers that can be used to help secure faster broadband speeds and greater reliability.
Using the vouchers enabled Openreach to work with the local community to build a customised, co-funded network.
Louise Thompson, Openreach’s regional engagement manager, said: “Our complex engineering teams have worked so hard to bring this new technology to Seaton Sluice.
“It usually takes around 12 to 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.
“We expect the remaining homes and businesses to be able to place orders before Christmas.
“Everyone who pledged a voucher has done their bit to help make Seaton Sluice one of the best-connected places in the UK.”
Funding through the Government’s Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme and the deployment of new innovative engineering techniques means that thousands more remote, rural and coastal communities like Seaton Sluice are now within reach of the ultrafast technology.
As part of the funding conditions, residents are asked to commit to ordering a full fibre service from a provider of their choice for at least 12 months once the new network is available and confirm that they are connected.
You can check your area’s eligibility at www.openreach.com/connect-my-community