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Five-fold increase in workforce at Colchester broadband provider

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Rural broadband provider County Broadband is on course to increase its workforce five-fold since the start of this year, from 16 to 79 by December and has ambitions to be a major player in the UK tech sector. New roles in technology, finance and community engagement have been created at the firm, based near Colchester, following a £46 million investment by Aviva Investors in 2018 to support its rollout of hyperfast full fibre broadband to rural East Anglia. Dozens of villages have given the go-ahead to have fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) networks installed with speeds of up to 1,000Mbps. HR manager Lewis Simington said: “With the current economic uncertainty, it’s reassuring and a huge boost to the local economy to be part of firm on an exciting growth journey, delivering an important new service to local communities.” Some 25 vacancies were advertised by the firm at the start of October.

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How it works – £3000 vouchers available for Colchester SMEs to get Gigabit Fibre Broadband

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The Government is helping local small businesses to improve their broadband by offering vouchers up to £3000 to improve connectivity. Colchester Borough Council is working with the Government to raise awareness among the local business community of this fantastic one-off opportunity.

How it works: An SME approaches a provider of gigabit connectivity, which then claims the voucher of up to £3k in value on its behalf. Once that is issued, work to make the connection can begin and you can enjoy connectivity faster than 99% of the UK and 89% of the EU – that’s 50x faster than current!

If you’re in business in Colchester and interested in improving your broadband to 1Gb both ways then drop an email to businessbroadband@colchester.gov.uk   The Council will record your interest and help facilitate your contact with an appropriate Gigabit Broadband service provider.

It’s available to houses too at a value of up to £500 per premises, but it has to be part of a group project. That means that at least one SME must be included in the deployment; there is no minimum number of residential connections.

Available throughout the Borough from today!

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