The Wiltshire County Council (WCC), which was recently awarded £4,900,000 by the UK government to help improve the regions internet connectivity, has said that it expects 85% of the county to have superfast broadband ISP access by 2015 (just below the government's target of 90%).

The county has also set aside £16m of its own funds to improve local broadband connectivity and received support from the results of a new survey, which found that 99% of Wiltshire businesses viewed a fast internet link as important but only 44% had an adequate connection and 67% wanted superfast connectivity.


The same survey also asked 3,600 local residents for their views and discovered that 20% claimed to have inadequate internet connections and 50% wanted superfast broadband. Work to improve the local broadband infrastructure is expected to begin in September 2012 (see top right for Ofcom's current fixed line overview of local broadband).