Great news for broadband users on the Newtonhill exchange. We will be among more than 7,300 homes and business in Aberdeenshire to be next to benefit from the latest phase of the £410 million Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband programme.
Auchenblae, Aboyne, Alford, Banchory, Kildrummy, Newtonhill, Newmachar and Torphins are the next areas to be passed by the Digital Scotland deployment of high-speed fibre broadband,with the first premises expected to benefit during Spring 2015.
Digital Scotland says we will have access to fibre services at speeds of up to 80Mbps1, thanks to the engineering rollout being delivered on the ground by BT’s local network business, Openreach. The new infrastructure will mean that multiple users in a home or business will be able to access the internet and download and share large files at the same time and more quickly than ever before, if they sign up to the service.
All of the places announced today will receive high speed technology for the first time.
The Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband programme aims to provide fibre broadband infrastructure to areas not covered by commercial deployment. Combined with commercial roll-out plans, around 85% of premises in Scotland will have access to fibre broadband by the end of 2015/16 and 95% by the end of 2017/18.