 £5 Million Pound Expansion
The
Superfast Staffordshire Partnership has announced a major £5.1 million
expansion that will enable around 6,200 households and businesses in
some of the county's smallest communities to access the information
superhighway for the first time.
Around 40 additional communities have been earmarked as part of the multi-million pound roll out.
The upgrade work will take place during 2017 and the first half of 2018. It is being funded partly by savings made from earlier phases of the roll out programme, with additional investment coming from the Government's Broadband Delivery UK programme and BT.
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Heard about the Community Fibre Partnership Fund?
 Community
Fibre Partnership (CFP) is where BT works with a local group of
residents or a group of business owners, to find a solution to bring
fibre broadband to their area, especially when they are not included in
any existing upgrade plans.
This
usually needs to be joint funded, where BT covers the costs in line
with its commercial model and the community provides the remaining gap
funding.
The
Superfast Staffordshire Community Fibre Partnership Support Fund has
been set up to complement the BT CFP initiative, and to match the
communiy's contribution up to a maximum of 50 per cent.
The
£400,000 support fund enables Superfast Staffordshire to co-invest with
communities and will be allocated on a 'first come, first served'
basis.
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