You may have noticed that over the last two months Openreach and their contractors have been in the village planning for the installation of the fibre cables to our houses.
As previously advised the project is unfortunately running behind schedule mainly due to the popularity of the scheme and the pressure this is putting on Openreach’s resources. However it has been good to
see some action on the ground.
Unfortunately the voucher scheme that we all signed up to with DCMS has expired as they were time limited. We are all about to receive fresh emails which we expect to come from either BDUK, (Building Digital UK), or Gigabit Vouchers <gigabit.vouchers@notifications.service.gov.uk> or Funding Platform
<funding.platform@notifications.service.gov.uk> and will be headed up “UK Gigabit Voucher Scheme – action required”.
These emails should arrive early this week and as before it is important for us all to sign up to these again. If you previously signed up as a business then you should do this again.
Please rest assured that we are not the only community having to undertake this action again. Openreach tell us that plenty of other communities have recently had to repeat this exercise however the wording of the document has been slightly altered to avoid the need for this to be repeated again.
The project is apparently still on target to be completed around the end of August so your help in promptly responding to the emails in a timely manner would be appreciated.