Broadband: CityFibre For All

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Current Situation

Please see the latest exciting update regarding the installation of super-fast CityFibre broadband in Gloucester here: https://www.richardgraham.org/news/cityfibre-works-gloucester

Past Events

The County Council had already pledged to make sure that every single home in Gloucestershire has access to super-fast broadband by 2020 at the latest with almost £30 million invested already.

Tolsey Gardens residents were connected in June 2017 after Richard ensured they were included in BT upgrade plans. County Councillor Dave Norman and city councillors Steve Morgan and Nigel Hanman said, “Some residents had such painfully slow internet speeds that they couldn’t pay online bills or send emails. For some, working from home was particularly frustrating.”

The new Universal Service Obligation (USO) was recently introduced to give businesses and households the legal right to request a broadband connection with speeds of at least 10 Megabits. Richard welcomed this alongside the second phase of Fastershire, the government funded scheme in the county (to check if your house will benefit check fastershire.com).

Over 10,000 broadband connections in Gloucester are not getting the proposed minimum broadband download speed in the USO. So Richard joined over 57 colleagues from across political parties to co-sign the British Infrastructure Group of MPs’ (BIG) latest report, ‘Broadband 2.0’ .

Richard said, “the problem is we don’t know whether poor broadband speeds are due to homeowners being unable to order a faster service or the nationally mandated faster Internet simply not being available to their property. It’s time we knew, and so this report recommends changes to improve the quality of broadband customer services.”

News

£4 million Fastershire Phase 2 Announced

Gloucestershire County Council and Herefordshire Council have awarded a contract to BT Group to deliver phase two of the Fastershire broadband rollout in parts of Cheltenham and Gloucester. The £4 million deal, which includes £690,000 from Gloucestershire County Council and the Government’s Broadba

Broadband in New Builds

It's important that all of our broadband black spots are connected as soon as possible. I raised my concerns about new developments in particular with the Minister.

Gloucester MP calls for better Broadband customer service

Over 10,000 broadband connections in Gloucester are not getting the proposed minimum broadband download speed, according to MP Richard Graham. Richard has joined over 57 colleagues from across political parties to co-sign the British Infrastructure Group of MPs’ (BIG) latest report, ‘Broadbad 2.0’.

Gloucester MP celebrates superfast broadband with newly connected residents

Gloucester MP Richard Graham visited Tolsey Gardens in Gloucester to celebrate their upgraded superfast broadband cabinet. Residents wrote to Richard several years ago when they moved into the newly built Tolsey Garden properties and discovered there were copper broadband speeds of around 1mbps or

MP secures BT broadband deal for Tolsey Gardens

Richard Graham MP has secured an agreement from Openreach – BT’s local network business – to fund vital upgrade works in Tolsey Gardens in Tuffley to provide them with fibre broadband from the Summer. This follows concerns raised by Tolsey Gardens residents about the ongoing slow internet they were

Asking the Minister about Tolsey Gardens Broadband

Richard Graham: What recent progress has been made on improving access to broadband in urban areas. The Minister for Culture and the Digital Economy (Mr Edward Vaizey): I am very pleased to tell you, Mr Speaker, that the broadband roll-out is going extremely well, particularly in our ci