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In the meantime, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/airband\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Airband<\/a> are rightly pleased to have appointed 25-year-old Sophie Crook to their team of 45 engineers, based in Worcester and Devon. She is the first of a wave of six new trainee engineers to hop on-board the ISP.<\/p>\n<p>Sophie started with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/airband\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Airband<\/a> on October 14th, the day after the world celebrated <strong>Ada Lovelace Day<\/strong>. In case you don&#8217;t know, Ada Lovelace was one of the first ever female computer programmers, and the second Tuesday of every October is dedicated to her achievement and the way she\u202finspired women to achieve careers within STEM (science, technology, engineering, maths).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Gareth Burgess, Airband&#8217;s Head of Engineering, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was very exciting when Sophie applied because we don&#8217;t get many female applicants &#8230; Of course, we\u2019re not interested in employing someone just because they\u2019re female, we need people who can do the job and Sophie demonstrated all the qualities we look for &#8211; a good attitude, willingness to learn and she showed interest in the industry and in what Airband does.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Airband said they&#8217;re actively working to encourage more women into their engineering team and anybody who wants to apply, male or female, should take a look at their many openings across different parts of the UK (<a href=\"https:\/\/airband.breezy.hr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The ISP is currently working to bring faster broadband services to a further <strong>50,000 premises<\/strong> across England and Wales by 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The slow march toward gender diversity in the traditionally male dominated role of UK telecoms engineering appears to be paying off after Airband, which supplies a mix of fixed wireless and full fibre (FTTP) broadband connectivity to various rural communities, appointed its first female engineer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24452,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[472,438,442],"class_list":["post-24450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-business","tag-devon","tag-worcestershire"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - 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