£12m for Rural Broadband in Northumberland

We have managed to secure £12m funding via the North of Tyne Combined Authority to provide broadband in rural areas across Northumberland. The funding will pay for connecting public buildings in rural areas with high speed fibre. This is turn makes it easier to connect houses in these rural areas because the high speed internet is already so much closer – a double whammy.

I’m pleased to have been able to play a part in bringing about this investment working closely with our 2 rural MP’s Guy Opperman and Anne-Marie Trevelyan to lobby DCMS and the Minister Margot James MP.

Read more in the council’s press release.

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