There’s good news for Welshpool’s growing army of mywelshpool readers... soon you will be able to log onto the site much faster following an announcement by BT.
The town has been included in the latest roll-out of ‘slow spots’ which will have access to faster broadband by spring next year.
Llanidloes has also been included in the list of 18 Welsh communities to be boosted, but Newtown has been left off the list.
The BT investment makes available broadband speeds of up to 20 megabits per second (Mbps) – more than double the maximum speeds previously available to the majority of UK homes and businesses.
Ann Beynon, BT Director for Wales, said: “Our latest investment in Wales marks another major milestone in the development of our country’s communications. It will deliver an important benefit for local businesses as well as homeworkers, helping to boost their efficiency and competitiveness, while households can make use of the many additional educational and entertainment opportunities available with faster broadband.”
The new next generation broadband network is available on an open, wholesale basis to all companies providing broadband services.
This investment is in addition to the £2.5 billion BT roll-out of super-fast optical fibre broadband, which is expected to bring even faster speeds to two-thirds of UK premises by the end of 2015 and is already available in parts of Wales.