Bringing superfast broadband to everyone in Shropshire should be a top priority in preventing the county from becoming the poor relation in the world of telecommunications, a leading expert has said.
18 Oct 2018
An additional 650 homes and businesses in the Ellesmere and Oswestry areas are set to benefit from superfast broadband.
26 Sept 2018
More than 14,000 homes and businesses are set to benefit from the next phase of Shropshire Council’s superfast broadband programme.
10 Jul 2017
Moves to bring superfast broadband to even more people in the county have been announced by Shropshire Council.
12 Nov 2016
Around 124 homes on the new Wat’s Meadow estate in the village of Gobowen, near Oswestry now have access to superfast fibre broadband.
16 Jun 2016
Engineering work has begun on a £5.6m programme to rollout superfast broadband across Telford and Wrekin.
23 Oct 2015
Around 4,000 more homes and businesses across Shropshire will be able to receive high-speed fibre broadband following an additional £5.6 million of funding announced today.
3 Jun 2015
Around 31,500 homes and businesses across the county are now within reach of faster fibre broadband thanks to the Connecting Shropshire partnership.
9 Feb 2015
Philip Dunne MP today urged people across South Shropshire to test their broadband service and help Ofcom identify areas requiring further investment.
5 Dec 2014
Connecting Shropshire – the multi-million pound high-speed fibre broadband programme is today celebrating a double milestone.
2 Oct 2014
MP Philip Dunne has welcomed news that Shropshire is to receive the second highest allocation of additional broadband funding to local authorities in the country.
25 Feb 2014
The first rural communities to benefit from the £24.6 million Connecting Shropshire broadband programme were today named by Shropshire Council and BT.
24 Oct 2013
Work on the Connecting Shropshire project is stepping up a gear with engineering work beginning in local telephone exchanges.
13 Aug 2013
Business leaders, councillors and community organisations have been hearing about a project to ‘build a broadband future’ in Shropshire.
3 Jun 2013
High-speed fibre broadband is set to become available to more than 90 per cent of Shropshire homes and businesses within the next three years as a result of a multi-million partnership project between Shropshire Council and BT.
27 Mar 2013
After working alongside Shropshire Council and Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK), Shrewsbury’s MP welcomed the much awaited decision from the European Commission to grant the Government’s £500 million upgrade of Britain’s broadband state aid approval.
23 Nov 2012
Shropshire Council has welcomed the latest investment in the county’s broadband network, but says there is still lots of work to be done.
2 Oct 2012
Shropshire residents and businesses are being urged to give a “big push” to a campaign to bring faster broadband to the county.
13 Jun 2012
Work to bring superfast broadband to more areas of Shropshire has taken a step forward after the Government approved the plans.
27 Jan 2012
Telford & Wrekin Council have today revealed they are no longer supporting a scheme to provide superfast broadband to around 7,000 rural homes in the borough.
26 Jan 2012
