CSW Broadband hits 50,000-premises milestone

Thousands more households and businesses in some of the most rural parts of Warwickshire will be able to access faster fibre broadband following the rollout of Wave Three of CSW Broadband.

CSW Broadband, designed to keep the county’s most rural areas connected, is a partnership between Warwickshire County Council, Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council, Coventry City Council, BT and Department for Culture Media & Sport.

Wave Three has now been announced with areas of Willoughby, Flecknoe, Meon Vale, Rowington and Stretton-Under-Fosse among the latest communities to benefit.

Additional parts of Southam, Stratford-Upon-Avon and Wellesbourne will also be upgraded from this summer.

Some of the county’s most remote areas are now enjoying access to the fibre network including some which would never have been connected without the intervention of the CSW Broadband project.

This huge engineering programme is progressing well with a mixture of technologies deployed in this part of the roll-out, leading to most properties covered seeing a significant increase in their broadband download and upload speeds.

CSW Broadband has hit a major landmark with over 50,000 premises now able to connect to the new fibre network – an excellent achievement only just over two years since the first cabinet went live. 

Upgrading to fibre broadband does not happen automatically. It’s an ‘opt in’ service, but because the network is being installed by Openreach it is ‘open’, so residents and businesses wanting to upgrade have a choice of fibre broadband service providers, with more than 140 now operating in the UK.

For more details please visit broadband@cswbroadband.org.uk.