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2023
08
June
2023
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12:09
Europe/Amsterdam
Day-to-day business for a home-based Staffordshire business is being transformed due to faster and more reliable full fibre broadband.With instant upload and downloads and immediate connection to clients, Chris and Louise Saunders’ leaflet distributi...
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17
May
2023
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11:34
Europe/Amsterdam
Openreach is urging residents in Bobbington, Staffordshire, to get behind a bid to bring ultrafast, ultra-reliable full fibre broadband to local homes and businesses.The company is warning that the community risks missing out on a once-in-a-lifetime ...
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2022
07
December
2022
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12:02
Europe/Amsterdam
More than 85,000 homes and businesses across Staffordshire can already order some of the fastest, most reliable broadband in Europe thanks to a £26 million investment by Openreach. And more areas are set to benefit, as engineers are now starting wor...
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2021
07
July
2021
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14:13
Europe/Amsterdam
A countywide broadband partnership, which has enabled nearly every household and business in Staffordshire to connect to superfast speeds (speeds of up to 80 Mb) is complete. The final village – Ellenhall near Stafford - was recently connected thanks...
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24
June
2021
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08:00
Europe/Amsterdam
Around 334,000 more West Midlands homes and businesses are set to benefit from a broadband boost in the region of £134m[1] thanks to Openreach – the UK’s largest broadband network provider. People living and working in a number of towns and villages ...
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11
January
2021
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12:38
Europe/Amsterdam
Openreach is urging people in the small Staffordshire community of Swindon to get behind a bid to make ultrafast, ultra-reliable full fibre broadband available. The company – supported by the county council - is asking local residents and businesses ...
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2020
02
September
2020
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15:02
Europe/Amsterdam
Connecting to some of the fastest fibre broadband in the UK through a county council partnership is transforming day-to-day life for people living and working East Staffordshire, providing a timely boost during this Covid period.
Residents of Duns...
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29
July
2020
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13:05
Europe/Amsterdam
Openreach today outlined plans to make ultra-reliable and gigabit-capable full fibre broadband available to homes and businesses in 11 county/market towns and villages across the West Midlands. The new locations, including Cannock and Burton Upon Tre...
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2019
19
December
2019
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10:22
Europe/Amsterdam
Staffordshire residents are being urged to get connected to faster broadband in 2020 and improve their access to a broad range of services and opportunities.Faster broadband helps you do more online, and the festive period is a great time to think ab...
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18
October
2019
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13:17
Europe/Amsterdam
Staffordshire communities are making the switch to superfast broadband, thanks to a county council partnership which has enabled 80,000 properties to connect.Tens of thousands of homes and businesses are already benefitting from faster speeds thanks ...
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16
August
2019
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11:22
Europe/Amsterdam
More than 75,000 homes and businesses, including Trevor Stewart’s garden design business, can now benefit from faster speeds thanks to the county council’s £32 million Superfast Staffordshire partnership with Openreach and the government’s Building D...
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05
April
2019
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10:11
Europe/Amsterdam
More Staffordshire residents are being urged to get connected to superfast broadband, now that most of the county is able to access the technology.
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2018
06
December
2018
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16:15
Europe/Amsterdam
A high-speed fibre broadband connection is one of the key factors people consider when buying or renting a property, according to a Staffordshire estate agent.
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28
August
2018
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09:41
Europe/Amsterdam
Tamworth now has near total superfast broadband coverage thanks to a county council scheme that’s making faster download speeds available to most of Staffordshire.
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18
April
2018
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10:00
Europe/Amsterdam
The Cannock Chase district of Staffordshire now has more than 99 per cent fibre coverage as a result of the Superfast Staffordshire partnership - led by Staffordshire County Council and Openreach, as part of the Government's BDUK programme - when com...
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15
March
2018
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08:56
Europe/Amsterdam
Stafford, Kinver and Abbots Bromley are among the locations to benefit from Openreach's biggest ever recruitment drive. It's also to invest £100,000 equipping a new fibre engineering academy at its Yarnfield Park training centre. The new engineers wi...
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13
March
2018
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10:44
Europe/Amsterdam
Staffordshire County Council’s scheme to help more remote households and businesses get up to speed celebrates its first anniversary. The co-funding initiative - supported by Openreach - has already helped scores of people living and working in Cotwa...
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12
March
2018
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10:15
Europe/Amsterdam
The West Midlands is expected to get a multi-million pound boost from an initiative which sees local communities forming partnerships with Openreach to bring high-speed fibre broadband to rural homes and businesses, according to an independent study ...
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29
January
2018
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11:00
Europe/Amsterdam
Alrewas, Blithbury, Brereton Cross, Brocton, Clifford’s Wood, Copmere End, Derrington, Essington, Morston Court and Wetwood are among latest communities to ‘go live’ as Openreach engineers install 600th fibre broadband cabinet for the Superfast Staff...
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2017
06
December
2017
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11:52
Europe/Amsterdam
Openreach is providing ultrafast broadband to around 1,500 new homes across Staffordshire including at developments in Burton-on-Trent, Newcastle-Under-Lyme, Streethay, Stafford and Uttoxeter, as part of an agreement with the Home Builders Federation...
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01
December
2017
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10:00
Europe/Amsterdam
Staffordshire residents and businesses looking forward to a fibre-filled Christmas as 95 per cent of county premises now able to get superfast broadband.
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16
November
2017
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13:12
Europe/Amsterdam
From rural lanes to information superhighway - Cotwalton, near Stone, is the first county village to get the latest ultrafast broadband technology through a new co-funding scheme led by Staffordshire County Council and Openreach as part of Superfast ...
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