Villagers in Somerset club together to pay for super-fast broadband after realising they had been forgotten
This is the kind of inspirational activity which the lottery programme Village SOS seeks to stimulate. The article tells us:
Residents in a small Somerset village, who realised the controversial £2 billion Government-funded rural broadband scheme would not reach them, have clubbed together to pay for it themselves.
Claverton, a couple of miles south of Bath, has become the first village in Britain to privately co-fund its own superfast broadband network, which is being launched later today.
The 70 households paid for two kilometres of underground ducting and four kilometres of overhead and underground fibre cabling to make sure their broadband speeds shot up to as much as 80mpbs.
Parish councillor Dr Rodger Sykes, who is also the chief executive of a technology company, led the residents’ campaign, and said they were not content to moan about the slow broadband and do nothing about it.