Derbyshire Now – 17th October 2025 Edition

Broadband boost

We’re pumping £900,000 into a project to improve digital connectivity in communities where broadband speeds are lowest – particularly in rural areas.

Around 32,000 homes and businesses across the county still receive less than 100mbps in areas with no prospect of commercial providers rolling out full fibre within the next three years.

Of these, around 3,000 premises are still receiving very slow speeds of less than 10mbps making everyday activities such as streaming digital TV channels and online banking virtually impossible.

At a meeting on Thursday 16 October Cabinet Members gave the go-ahead to use funding from our Digital Derbyshire reserves to set up two grant programmes to boost broadband speeds in premises with some of the poorest performing internet connections.

More information about the grant schemes will be made available on the Digital Derbyshire website when it becomes available.

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