The Lincolnshire County Council (LCC) has confirmed plans to bid for a slice of the £530m that has been set aside by the UK governments Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) office. BDUK has been set the task of helping to deploy "super-fast" broadband services throughout most of the country by 2015 (available cash could rise to £830 by 2017) and will focus on mostly rural locations, where private sector investment will not go.

Lincolnshire (Lincs) is one of England's most rural county's and suffers from a large number of broadband "Not-Spots", where no or very poor internet connectivity is available. However it's also home to Timico UK, a major business ISP.

Several smaller ISP projects, such as Rutland Telecom's work to hook up the village of Essendine with faster 40Mbps connectivity (here) and Fibrestream's efforts to bring a full 100Mbps fibre optic ( FTTH ) service to Ashby de la Launde (here), are sadly all too rare examples of progress.


It's understood that the council plans to bid, like others, for tax-payers cash during spring 2011. In the meantime they have a somewhat sparse website called Onlincolnshire, which aims to provide local residents and businesses with useful information regarding the state of the digital landscape across the County.