Superfast Broadband for Highlands & Islands

Fibre Broadband

Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) today [Wednesday 20 October 2010] welcomed the news that its bid for UK Government funding to deliver superfast broadband in some of Scotland’s most rural areas had met with success. HIE Chief Executive Alex Paterson said he was delighted that the strengths of the Highlands and Islands’ case for funding [...]

Rural Broadband Funding

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Rural communities across the Highlands are being encouraged to put forward bids for a share of million Euro fund that could bring enhanced Broadband to their area including improved coverage and faster connections. Following an announcement last week by the Scottish Government that funding was now available, The Highland Leader Programme  is encouraging interested communities [...]

C&W Enable Exchanges

Cable and Wireless Worldwide

Cable and Wireless are going to enable an additional 256 exchanges for their ADSL2+ Local Loop Unbundling (LLU) service which will provide an up to 24Mbps service to individuals and businesses, which will include exchanges that are within the Pathfinder area and will be enabled from May 2010. The exchanges in the Pathfinder area included [...]