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27/6/17
Connecting business to fastest broadband speeds in the country

A county council partnership programme is supporting businesses to potentially access some of the fastest broadband speeds in the country.

Today's Which? report into national broadband speeds placed Tamworth as being the best in the country for being able to connect to fast broadband speeds, with an average of 30.4 megabits per second (mbps).

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27/2/17
Superfast Staffordshire tees up £400,000 plan to help its most remote communities get superfast fibre broadband

A £400,000 drive to make superfast fibre broadband available in even more of Staffordshire's most remote communities is in full swing.

Superfast Staffordshire launched its Community Fibre Partnership Support Fund at Norton Bridge Golf Club, near Stone, one of the rural businesses looking forward to benefiting from the new scheme.

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25/1/17
Broadband speeds set to soar at rural business park

A Staffordshire business park is to become the second location in the county to benefit from a new initiative designed to help more people - especially in rural areas - get superfast fibre broadband.

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13/12/16
Thousands more Staffordshire households and businesses to get fibre broadband boost thanks to £5 million pound expansion

The Superfast Staffordshire broadband partnership has announced a major £5.1 million expansion that will enable around 6,200 households and businesses in some of the county's smallest communities to access the information superhighway for the first time.

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4/11/16
Superfast Staffordshire is 'at Loggerheads' - as 500th fibre broadband cabinet goes live

Partners in the multi-million pound Superfast Staffordshire project today announced they were at Loggerheads - but in the best possible way!

Loggerheads is the name of the community where the project's 500th fibre broadband cabinet has just gone live.

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26/9/16
Broadband speeds set to soar in tiny Staffordshire community of Cotwalton thanks to pioneering deal

Households and businesses in Cotwalton, near Stone, have made a giant leap towards joining the information superhighway thanks to a ground breaking agreement, which will bring some of the fastest broadband speeds in the country to the picturesque hamlet.

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26/8/16
Rural champion celebrates arrival of superfast broadband at its Midlands headquarters

A national organisation which has campaigned for better broadband for rural businesses is itself now benefitting from faster fibre technology, thanks to the Superfast Staffordshire partnership led by Staffordshire County Council and BT.

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15/8/16
Small business growth speeds up thanks to faster broadband in Staffordshire

Small businesses growth in Staffordshire is being sped up with faster broadband thanks to a joint multi-million pound project by the county council and BT.

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27/6/16
Villages lead technology charge across Staffordshire

Abbots Bromley, Amington, Armitage, Branston, Church Eaton, Flash, Fradley, Hixon, Hopton, Kings Bromley, Sandyford, Trentham, Tutbury, Wheaton Aston, Yarnfield and Yoxall are among fastest to seize benefits of high-speed fibre broadband. Take-up of fibre broadband doubles in a year thanks to Superfast Staffordshire roll-out.

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15/6/16
Community team work helps pave the way for new fibre broadband technology in Burton-on-Trent

Hundreds more households and businesses in Burton-on-Trent are now able to access faster fibre broadband thanks to the Superfast Staffordshire roll-out, spearheaded by Staffordshire County Council and BT.

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19/5/16
Superfast Broadband Fuels Business Expansion in North Staffordshire

Small businesses in an area of North Staffordshire are enjoying the sweet taste of success after upgrading to some of the fastest broadband speeds in the country.

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29/3/16
Extra help with the slowest Staffordshire broadband

Homes and businesses in Staffordshire with the slowest connection speeds can get a discount on satellite dish to boost their broadband.

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11/2/16
90% of Staffordshire homes & businesses can access superfast broadband

More than 80,000 households and businesses are now able to get faster fibre broadband thanks to Superfast Staffordshire, lead partners Staffordshire County Council and BT announced today.

This takes the percentage of premises across Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent able to connect to superfast fibre broadband to 90 per cent as a result of the Superfast Staffordshire roll-out and private sector investments.

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21/12/15
Superfast Staffordshire Christmas Newsletter December 2015

Download our Christmas Special newsletter!

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17/12/15
Festive fibre boost as Superfast Staffordshire achieves 70,000 milestone

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