£7.25m to boost broadband roll-out

Cheshire East council will receive a share of £7.25m of funding which has been secured by Connecting Cheshire to extend the roll-out of faster broadband in the county.

The investment -- to be implemented over the next three years -- is the fourth phase of the 'Connecting Cheshire' project and will target rural areas where broadband speeds remain low and where it has not been commercially viable to invest previously.

Funding will come mainly from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and government sources, as well as from Connecting Cheshire and businesses.

To date, the Connecting Cheshire project has reached more than 97,000 premises with faster speeds and has switched-on more than 600 new roadside fibre broadband cabinets. The project has also been successful in driving take-up of the faster speeds by homes and businesses and will soon reach 50 per cent, one of the highest in the country.

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