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Progress in Connect8’s Campaign for Fast Broadband in South Oxfordshire

The Connect8 campaign, which has been fighting to bring faster broadband to eight rural villages in South Oxfordshire (Howe Hill, Britwell Hill, Cookley Green, Greenfield, Park Corner, Pishill with Stonor, Russells Water and Swyncombe), appears to be seeing some positive progress.

Local residents, many of whom have had to suffer sub-1Mbps download speeds for far too long, began the campaign in 2014 after BT (Openreach) and the state-aid supported Better Broadband for Oxfordshire project were unable to offer a solid commitment towards future coverage.

However Openreach’s engineers have recently begun to deploy a number of new ‘up to’ 80Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC / VDSL2) based broadband services into the area, particularly around Howe Hill, Christmas Common, Stonor and so forth. Overall around 70% of the area could potentially be reached by December 2017.