{"id":40608,"date":"2025-01-16T17:07:16","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T17:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=40608"},"modified":"2025-01-17T07:41:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T07:41:46","slug":"dorset-uk-council-celebrate-completion-of-23-6m-broadband-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/01\/dorset-uk-council-celebrate-completion-of-23-6m-broadband-project.html","title":{"rendered":"Dorset UK Council Celebrate Completion of \u00a323.6m Broadband Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After 11 years and \u00a323.6m of public investment, the Dorset Council in the South of England has today celebrated the completion of their Superfast Dorset project (now part of the wider &#8216;Digital Dorset&#8217; scheme), which helped to extend &#8220;<em>superfast<\/em>&#8221; and &#8220;<em>ultra-fast<\/em>&#8221; broadband networks to an additional 85,000 premises.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At present around 98% of premises in Dorset (excluding Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole) have access to a 24-30Mbps+ capable fixed &#8220;<em>superfast broadband<\/em>&#8221; service, which falls to 61% for gigabit speeds (1000Mbps+). But while most of that has come from commercial investment, the <strong>Superfast Dorset<\/strong> contract(s) with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/openreach\" target=\"_blank\">Openreach<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>), which helped to extend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttc\">FTTC<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a> coverage into rural areas, did play a big part.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bq2\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> Dorset Council\u2019s related broadband contracts were awarded to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/openreach\" target=\"_blank\">Openreach<\/a> in 2013, 2015 and 2017 &#8211; made possible thanks to \u00a311.6m investment from the UK government, \u00a310m from Dorset Council and its predecessor councils and \u00a32m from Dorset LEP.<\/div>\n<p>The council is today marking the end of that roll-out programme, which has also seen an additional <strong>\u00a35.3m<\/strong> returned to the county &#8220;<em>as part of a &#8216;cash back&#8217; deal with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/openreach\" target=\"_blank\">Openreach<\/a><\/em>&#8221; (i.e. clawback from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a> Group due to high customer take-up of the state aid funded network build).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Dorset Council\u2019s Deputy Leader, Cllr Richard Biggs, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am incredibly proud of the success of our broadband rollouts and the impact they have had on boosting the economy and improving people\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n<p>As a direct result of people connecting to broadband under these contracts, Openreach has paid back \u00a35.3m to the council, some of which we have re-invested into delivering more connectivity.<\/p>\n<p>We know there are still areas of our county that need better connectivity, and we continue to work with central government to help make that happen.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Martin Williams, Openreach Partnership Director for the South West of England, added:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know how important fast reliable broadband is for modern day life and our engineering team are immensely proud to have connected 85,000 premises in partnership with Dorset Council through the superfast programme.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The focus has now switch to the Government&#8217;s \u00a35bn follow-on Project Gigabit broadband programme. Speaking of which, rural ISP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/wessexinternet\" target=\"_blank\">Wessex Internet<\/a> recently announced that they\u2019d begun the build phase of their new \u00a333.5m state aid supported Project Gigabit contract for Dorset and South Somerset (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/12\/wessex-internet-start-project-gigabit-broadband-build-in-dorset-and-somerset-uk.html\">here<\/a>), which will extend their gigabit speed full fibre (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a>) network to cover 21,400 hard-to-reach premises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 11 years and \u00a323.6m of public investment, the Dorset Council in the South of England has today celebrated the completion of their Superfast Dorset project (now part of the wider &#8216;Digital Dorset&#8217; scheme), which helped to extend &#8220;superfast&#8221; and &#8220;ultra-fast&#8221; broadband networks to an additional 85,000 premises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[471,465,56,60,38,1997],"class_list":["post-40608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-bduk","tag-dorset","tag-fttp","tag-mobile-broadband","tag-politics","tag-uk-gigabit-programme"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@ispreview\/113839134665584811","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dorset UK Council Celebrate Completion of \u00a323.6m Broadband Project - ISPreview UK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"After 11 years and \u00a323.6m of public investment, the Dorset Council in the South of England has today celebrated the completion of their Superfast Dorset\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/01\/dorset-uk-council-celebrate-completion-of-23-6m-broadband-project.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dorset UK Council Celebrate Completion of \u00a323.6m Broadband Project - ISPreview UK\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"After 11 years and \u00a323.6m of public investment, the Dorset Council in the South of England has today celebrated the completion of their Superfast Dorset\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/01\/dorset-uk-council-celebrate-completion-of-23-6m-broadband-project.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"ISPreview UK\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ispreview\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ispreview\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-01-16T17:07:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-01-17T07:41:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/nggallery_import\/diamond_cutter_rural_fttp_openreach.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"900\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"896\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Mark Jackson\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ispreview\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ispreview\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Mark Jackson\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2025\\\/01\\\/dorset-uk-council-celebrate-completion-of-23-6m-broadband-project.html#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2025\\\/01\\\/dorset-uk-council-celebrate-completion-of-23-6m-broadband-project.html\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Mark Jackson\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/de66a8b4e937c21c80e443d1bf9c35d5\"},\"headline\":\"Dorset UK Council Celebrate Completion of \u00a323.6m Broadband Project\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-01-16T17:07:16+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-01-17T07:41:46+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2025\\\/01\\\/dorset-uk-council-celebrate-completion-of-23-6m-broadband-project.html\"},\"wordCount\":401,\"commentCount\":4,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2025\\\/01\\\/dorset-uk-council-celebrate-completion-of-23-6m-broadband-project.html#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/07\\\/nggallery_import\\\/diamond_cutter_rural_fttp_openreach.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Building Digital UK\",\"Dorset\",\"FTTP\",\"Mobile Broadband\",\"Politics\",\"Project Gigabit\"],\"articleSection\":[\"ISP News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2025\\\/01\\\/dorset-uk-council-celebrate-completion-of-23-6m-broadband-project.html#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2025\\\/01\\\/dorset-uk-council-celebrate-completion-of-23-6m-broadband-project.html\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2025\\\/01\\\/dorset-uk-council-celebrate-completion-of-23-6m-broadband-project.html\",\"name\":\"Dorset UK Council Celebrate Completion of \u00a323.6m Broadband Project - ISPreview UK\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2025\\\/01\\\/dorset-uk-council-celebrate-completion-of-23-6m-broadband-project.html#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2025\\\/01\\\/dorset-uk-council-celebrate-completion-of-23-6m-broadband-project.html#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/07\\\/nggallery_import\\\/diamond_cutter_rural_fttp_openreach.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-01-16T17:07:16+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-01-17T07:41:46+00:00\",\"description\":\"After 11 years and \u00a323.6m of public investment, the Dorset Council in the South of England has today celebrated the completion of their Superfast Dorset\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2025\\\/01\\\/dorset-uk-council-celebrate-completion-of-23-6m-broadband-project.html#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2025\\\/01\\\/dorset-uk-council-celebrate-completion-of-23-6m-broadband-project.html\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2025\\\/01\\\/dorset-uk-council-celebrate-completion-of-23-6m-broadband-project.html#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/07\\\/nggallery_import\\\/diamond_cutter_rural_fttp_openreach.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/07\\\/nggallery_import\\\/diamond_cutter_rural_fttp_openreach.jpg\",\"width\":900,\"height\":896,\"caption\":\"diamond cutter rural fttp openreach\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2025\\\/01\\\/dorset-uk-council-celebrate-completion-of-23-6m-broadband-project.html#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Dorset UK Council Celebrate Completion of \u00a323.6m Broadband Project\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/\",\"name\":\"ISPreview UK\",\"description\":\"Top Broadband ISP and Mobile Provider Information Site\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"ISPreview.co.uk\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/07\\\/ispreview_uk_logo.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/07\\\/ispreview_uk_logo.jpg\",\"width\":1000,\"height\":1000,\"caption\":\"ISPreview.co.uk\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/ispreview\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/ispreview\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.linkedin.com\\\/in\\\/mjack\\\/\",\"https:\\\/\\\/bsky.app\\\/profile\\\/ispreview.bsky.social\",\"https:\\\/\\\/mastodon.social\\\/@ispreview\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/de66a8b4e937c21c80e443d1bf9c35d5\",\"name\":\"Mark Jackson\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/01\\\/nggallery_import\\\/Mark-Jackson-96x96.jpg\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/01\\\/nggallery_import\\\/Mark-Jackson-96x96.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/01\\\/nggallery_import\\\/Mark-Jackson-96x96.jpg\",\"caption\":\"Mark Jackson\"},\"description\":\"By Mark Jackson Mark is a professional technology writer, IT consultant and computer engineer from Dorset (England), he also founded ISPreview in 1999 and enjoys analysing the latest telecoms and broadband developments. Find me on X (Twitter), Mastodon, Facebook, BlueSky, Threads.net and Linkedin.\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/ispreview\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/ispreview\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/author\\\/markj\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Dorset UK Council Celebrate Completion of \u00a323.6m Broadband Project - ISPreview UK","description":"After 11 years and \u00a323.6m of public investment, the Dorset Council in the South of England has today celebrated the completion of their Superfast Dorset","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/01\/dorset-uk-council-celebrate-completion-of-23-6m-broadband-project.html","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"Dorset UK Council Celebrate Completion of \u00a323.6m Broadband Project - ISPreview UK","og_description":"After 11 years and \u00a323.6m of public investment, the Dorset Council in the South of England has today celebrated the completion of their Superfast Dorset","og_url":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/01\/dorset-uk-council-celebrate-completion-of-23-6m-broadband-project.html","og_site_name":"ISPreview UK","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ispreview","article_author":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ispreview","article_published_time":"2025-01-16T17:07:16+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-01-17T07:41:46+00:00","og_image":[{"width":900,"height":896,"url":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/nggallery_import\/diamond_cutter_rural_fttp_openreach.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Mark Jackson","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@ispreview","twitter_site":"@ispreview","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Mark Jackson","Estimated reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/01\/dorset-uk-council-celebrate-completion-of-23-6m-broadband-project.html#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/01\/dorset-uk-council-celebrate-completion-of-23-6m-broadband-project.html"},"author":{"name":"Mark Jackson","@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/de66a8b4e937c21c80e443d1bf9c35d5"},"headline":"Dorset UK Council Celebrate Completion of \u00a323.6m Broadband Project","datePublished":"2025-01-16T17:07:16+00:00","dateModified":"2025-01-17T07:41:46+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/01\/dorset-uk-council-celebrate-completion-of-23-6m-broadband-project.html"},"wordCount":401,"commentCount":4,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/01\/dorset-uk-council-celebrate-completion-of-23-6m-broadband-project.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/nggallery_import\/diamond_cutter_rural_fttp_openreach.jpg","keywords":["Building Digital UK","Dorset","FTTP","Mobile Broadband","Politics","Project Gigabit"],"articleSection":["ISP News"],"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/01\/dorset-uk-council-celebrate-completion-of-23-6m-broadband-project.html#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/01\/dorset-uk-council-celebrate-completion-of-23-6m-broadband-project.html","url":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/01\/dorset-uk-council-celebrate-completion-of-23-6m-broadband-project.html","name":"Dorset UK Council Celebrate Completion of \u00a323.6m Broadband Project - ISPreview UK","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/01\/dorset-uk-council-celebrate-completion-of-23-6m-broadband-project.html#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/01\/dorset-uk-council-celebrate-completion-of-23-6m-broadband-project.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/nggallery_import\/diamond_cutter_rural_fttp_openreach.jpg","datePublished":"2025-01-16T17:07:16+00:00","dateModified":"2025-01-17T07:41:46+00:00","description":"After 11 years and \u00a323.6m of public investment, the Dorset Council in the South of England has today celebrated the completion of their Superfast Dorset","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/01\/dorset-uk-council-celebrate-completion-of-23-6m-broadband-project.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/01\/dorset-uk-council-celebrate-completion-of-23-6m-broadband-project.html"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/01\/dorset-uk-council-celebrate-completion-of-23-6m-broadband-project.html#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/nggallery_import\/diamond_cutter_rural_fttp_openreach.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/nggallery_import\/diamond_cutter_rural_fttp_openreach.jpg","width":900,"height":896,"caption":"diamond cutter rural fttp openreach"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/01\/dorset-uk-council-celebrate-completion-of-23-6m-broadband-project.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Dorset UK Council Celebrate Completion of \u00a323.6m Broadband Project"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/","name":"ISPreview UK","description":"Top Broadband ISP and Mobile Provider Information Site","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/#organization","name":"ISPreview.co.uk","url":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/ispreview_uk_logo.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/ispreview_uk_logo.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"caption":"ISPreview.co.uk"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ispreview","https:\/\/x.com\/ispreview","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mjack\/","https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/ispreview.bsky.social","https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@ispreview"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/de66a8b4e937c21c80e443d1bf9c35d5","name":"Mark Jackson","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/nggallery_import\/Mark-Jackson-96x96.jpg","url":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/nggallery_import\/Mark-Jackson-96x96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/nggallery_import\/Mark-Jackson-96x96.jpg","caption":"Mark Jackson"},"description":"By Mark Jackson Mark is a professional technology writer, IT consultant and computer engineer from Dorset (England), he also founded ISPreview in 1999 and enjoys analysing the latest telecoms and broadband developments. Find me on X (Twitter), Mastodon, Facebook, BlueSky, Threads.net and Linkedin.","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ispreview","https:\/\/x.com\/ispreview"],"url":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/author\/markj"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}