Thecaretaker, a regular ISPreview contributor, has celebrated after their 3 year long local campaign for better internet access finally culminated in BT adding both Eastbourne and Hastings (East Sussex) to their UK superfast FTTC broadband rollout map for 2012 (here).

The Filsham broadband campaign warned in 2008 that local residents and businesses could only expect to receive broadband download speeds of 1Mbps or less (many were still on dialup and other low-income families didn't even have fixed telephone lines). At the time it was suggested that such poor performance could be putting the education of an estimated 3,500 local pupils at risk.


It's estimated that up to 61,000 homes and businesses could benefit from BT's forthcoming upgrade, which should make more reliable download speeds of up to 40Mbps available to the area. However, it should be stressed that BT's FTTC solution rarely covers 100% of premises, which means that some locations are likely to remain in broadband slow-spots with pricey Satellite as their only viable choice.