Rural Digital Connectivity
In an increasingly digital world, the lack of robust digital infrastructure in rural areas severely limits access to crucial services and stifles economic growth.
29 Aug 2022
Our mission is to provide the best rural broadband – National Rural Conference 2022 Feature Article
Founded in 2009, Airband is an independent internet service provider bringing high speed broadband to homes, business and industry in rural and hard-to-reach areas Airband’s primary mission is to ensure...
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29 Aug 2022
Broadcast is an enormously valued national asset for rural communities – National Rural Conference 2022 Feature Article
Broadcast TV and radio – content delivered through an aerial into people’s homes – is part of the fabric of our national life. Watching and listening to our favourite shows...
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01 Aug 2022
Selaine Saxbyn MP: To end the rural housing crisis, we must stop treating the countryside like a holiday park
Writing in Conservative Home, Conservative MP for North Devon, Selaine Saxbyn outlines her mission has always been to level up the pockets of deprivation in her ‘remote, rural and coastal’...
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27 Jul 2022
New campaign launched to support long-term free-to-air broadcast connectivity for rural audiences
A new campaign, ‘Broadcast 2040+’, has been launched to protect broadcast TV and radio through to 2040 and beyond by Arqiva – a communications infrastructure and media services company –...
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27 Jul 2022
Mobile UK webinar: Making the case for local authority digital champions
Mobile UK, the trade association for the UK’s mobile network operators – EE/ BT, Virgin Media O2, Three and Vodafone is calling on the Government to fund the role of...
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25 Jul 2022
Changes to Help to Grow: Digital
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) have announced some key improvements from the 25th July to the Help to Grow: Digital scheme, which will enable even more...
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25 Jul 2022
Three expands 5G to rural areas
Operator Three UK has revealed its 5G mobile network has expanded to 86 new locations across the UK, including rural areas such as Dartmouth As well as improving service for...
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18 Jul 2022
Rural communities discriminated against for being digitally isolated
Business Cheshire report how rural based business communities risk being “left behind” and “isolated” because they have to put up with third-rate connectivity services, a Cheshire based expert has warned Roy...
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18 Jul 2022
£200 million broadband investment in rural Cumbria
Westmorland Gazette reports that broadband provider, Fibrus, has revealed its plans for its roll out across Great Britain – starting with ‘underserved towns and villages’ in Cumbria In a staged...
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04 Jul 2022
Thousands of rural primary schools to get huge broadband upgrade
The Guardian reports that up to 3,000 primary schools across rural England are to gain access to gigabit-speed broadband as part of a new multimillion-pound investment, the Government has said A joint £82 million...
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