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The Isle of Wight council says that not only have all contractual conditions been met by BT, but that the project has been delivered £1.7m under budget.
Isle of Wight Broadband
BT were chosen in September 2013 as the preferred bidder for the Isle of Wight Rural Broadband Project.
A budget of £3m was approved for the project which was due for completion in September 2015.
The project was completed in August 2016 with a £1.7m underspend.
Below are some of the articles covering the subject.
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109 rural fibre broadband cabinets have ‘gone live’ around the Island. This combined with the 51,000 premises reached by the private sector means the Island now has 99 per cent fibre coverage.
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The council say more than 18,600 homes and businesses in mainly rural areas of the Isle of Wight now have access to faster fibre broadband speeds as a result of the Island’s rural broadband project.
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Some clever stick came up with the rather smart idea of installing a miniature broadband cabinet in Godshill famous model village to mark a close-to 16,000 homes on the Island with 'fibre' broadband.
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New fibre broadband cabinets are continuing to be installed in locations across the Island.
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Click4Internet has just claimed they have been subject to 'criminal activity' following a prolonged service outage. WightFibre claimed similar yesterday.
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An Inquiry has been launched into the rollout of rural broadband as the Government introduce 'digital by default' for agricultural support payment applications.
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The volume of Internet traffic enjoyed by WightFibre customers at peak times has grown over 200% since the company re-launched as WightFibre in July 2012. They're about to receive even faster speeds with the latest upgrade.
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The first cabinet to be fully connected as part of the Isle of Wight’s multi-million pound rural superfast fibre broadband project has now gone live, it has been announced today (Wednesday 27 August).
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Following the announcement made by the council in May, the first rural broadband cabinets are now being installed to serve properties in Shorwell and Shalfleet.
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The first communities set to benefit from the multi-million pound rural fibre broadband partnership between the Isle of Wight Council and BT, were announced today (Monday).
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It's been over two months since OnTheWight requested from the Isle of Wight council a copy of the BT Rural Broadband contract. The legal limit to release it is 20 working days.
