EAST Sussex County Council and BT have successfully achieved the first phase of their plans to improve county-wide digital connectivity to support economic growth and prosperity for local communities.
The eSussex project has made fibre broadband available to more than 73,000 homes and businesses including Isfield which previously only had dial up internet access.
Demand is also growing rapidly.
Latest figures show the number of households and businesses choosing to take up the high-speed technology in the eSussex fibre broadband partnership area has almost doubled in the past 18 months from 19 per cent to 37 per cent. A second phase is underway to further extend the network and improve speeds for those who haven’t yet benefitted from faster broadband.
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