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Gigaclear Confirms First Cotswolds Homes for 1Gbps FTTP Broadband

Wednesday, Aug 26th, 2015 (4:54 pm) - Score 1,421

UK ISP Gigaclear, which recently won the contract to ensure that 6,495 additional rural premises in Gloucestershire (England) are able to receive “ultra fast” Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband by the end of 2017, has announced that Seven Springs in Cockleford will be the first to benefit.

The Fastershire contract, which was signed in June 2015 and is funded by £3m of public investment and a further £7m of private investment from Gigaclear (here), is one of the precious few Broadband Delivery UK based projects in England to be agreed with an operator other than BT.

The original announcement suggested that the related roll-out would focus on communities in the Cotswolds, such as Guiting Power, Chedworth, Whelford, Bibury and Icomb. Apparently the initial focus on Cockleford will also include the communities of Coberley, Upper Coberley, Cowley, Stockwell, Elkstone and Colesbourne.

Matthew Hare, Gigaclear’s CEO, said:

We’re delighted to be able to reveal that Seven Springs in Cockleford is to be the first community in the Cotswolds to benefit from our ultrafast pure fibre broadband. This will give homes and businesses in the area a world-leading internet connection with speeds up to 40 times faster for downloads, and up to 300 times faster for uploads than the UK average. Working with local communities, landowners and the county council, we aim to minimise the impact on the local environment during the construction stage while we install this future proofed, new telecommunications network.”

Construction of the new network is set to begin in October 2015 and the first phase for Seven Springs will then complete by Christmas, with the other areas due to follow during Q1 2016. A full schedule for the delivery, including the expected timeframe for all communities within the plans, will be published later in September on Gigaclear’s website.

As part of the rollout, Fastershire and Gigaclear will hold local events in advance of engineering works to provide relevant information and give residents the opportunity to have their project and broadband questions answered. The local community events will be held on 29th and 30th September at Brimpsfield and Elkstone Village Halls respectively, both starting at 7.30pm.

The news comes only two days after exact details of the full roll-out plan were published online, albeit in a very raw format and without any timescale information (here).

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