Secret Bunker goes superfast

More premises across Fife are now able to upgrade to faster fibre broadband through the £428 million Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband rollout.

To celebrate, the Digital Scotland team visited Scotland’s Secret Bunker near St Andrews which, thanks to the programme, is now using the technology. The tourist attraction – built to withstand a nuclear attack and for 40 years a secret hidden beneath a farmhouse – is among the first premises in the area to upgrade to Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) technology.

All of the latest local properties reached by the expansion – in the Crail, St Monans, Ladybank and Strathkinness exchange areas – can now connect to the fastest residential broadband available as Openreach engineers build more FTTP.

Kirsty Weir, PR and marketing manager at Scotland’s Secret Bunker, said: “High-speed broadband is becoming increasingly important. Whether it is for running a successful business such as ours, or providing world-class facilities to our many visitors from Scotland, the UK or around the world, high-speed broadband is increasingly being seen not as a ‘nice-to-have’ but as an essential.”

Across Fife, more than 59,470 premises are now able to connect to fibre broadband through the programme.

Robert Thorburn, partnership director for Openreach in Scotland, said: “It’s wonderful to see such a prominent visitor attraction making use of the technology now available.”

From left: Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband Community Project Officer Samantha Lindsay-Dorward, Marc McConnell and Lindsay Meldrum from Scotland’s Secret Bunker and Morag Miller of Fife Council.