Comrie receives high-speed broadband

amount of solid engineering work that’s involved in connecting up communities to fibre broadband.

“I think the children now have a very good understanding of how beneficial this can be.”

The Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband programme seeks to provide fibre broadband infrastructure to parts of Scotland not included in commercial providers’ investment plans

Combined with current commercial roll- out plan, the programme aims to deliver access to fibre broadband to around 95% of premises by the end of March 2018.

Led by Highlands and Islands Enterprise in their area and the Scottish Government in the rest of Scotland, the partnership currently reaches more than 590,000 premises across the country.

A small number of homes and businesses in the Comrie area are served by ‘exchange only’ lines.

These run directly from the exchange to the premises – bypassing the usual road-side cabinets which are integral to the fibre rollout.

Engineers will rearrange the existing network, laying new cables to reroute lines through extra road- side cabinets, to overcome this challenge.

Sara Budge, programme director for Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband was pleased with the progress. She said: “It’s wonderful news to hear that many residents and businesses in and around Comrie now have access to fibre broadband thanks to the programme, with more coverage to follow.

“I hope the children from Comrie Primary School had fun visiting to our Digital Scotland Fibre Showcase.”