Derbyshire UK and BT Launch Website and Map of its Fibre Broadband Rollout
The £27m state aid supported scheme to help BT deploy their fibre optic (FTTC/P) based broadband network, which aims to reach 95% of local premises in Derbyshire (England) by the end of 2016, has now launched a new website and predicted map of future coverage.
The Digital Derbyshire project, which was agreed last August 2013 (here), should ultimately bring faster connectivity to an additional 88,000 homes and businesses in the county. As usual the new website also includes a highly tentative coverage map (PDF), which is “not accurate at premises or postcode level“.
Otherwise the site is much the same as the other Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) based schemes around the United Kingdom and even includes a promotion video, which we’ve embedded below. The first areas for an upgrade are due to be announced shortly and the actual roll-out will commence sometime this year, although we still don’t know precisely when.
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Why is so hard to see small print on the map? I try zoom but very poor quality!
You can see a MAP..??
I cant even see a MAP whateve definition