Super-fast Broadband for Souters

According the Mark Entwistle, Selkirk would be one of the 47 Scottish towns to obtain the benefits of high speed broadband facilities, and this news has been greeting heartily by the Royal burgh.

BT the telecom stalwarts had just declared that about 11,000 homes and business enterprises in Selkirk and Hawick would be able to access faster broadband speeds by the summer of the coming year. These two border towns were added to the latest of BT’s plans to be provided with the next generation broadband facilities. This would increase the broadband speeds more than two fold in comparison to what they were receiving earlier.

This is an added investment to BT’s already existing 2.5 billion pounds UK plans of high-speed fibre-based broadband services that was supposed to provide much faster speeds to over two-thirds of the UK properties by end 2014.

The information that Selkirk was one among the communities that was to be provided with super-fast broadband facilities was a real encouragement when the overall economic sate of the country was at an all time low.

Gordon Edgar, the Chairman of the Local Chamber of Trade stated that anything that helped to enhance local business would be greeted heartily.

He also said that it was great news for them. He said that business firms needed to be able to access everything possible to assist them to maintain themselves and also to give them the competitive edge. He also stated that super fast broadband would be as welcome in the rural regions like Ettrick and Yarrow Valleys.

The Director of BT in Scotland, Mr. Brendan Dick said that the move to provide quicker broadband was beginning to gather momentum. He also stated that no one else was trying to do better than his company to provide high speed broadband facilities throughout Scotland.

He commented that these facilities would be a significant enhancement during the time of severe economic slowdown and that it would provide the necessary encouragement for a lot of business houses in the border and provides plenty of educational as well as entertainment options for the homes in the locality.

He stated that BT had intentions of going ahead. They planned to work hand in hand with the public sector to look for means to provide faster broadband facilities to regions that are both physically as well as commercially tough to reach.

The Project Director for South of Scotland Next Generation Broadband, Mr. Duncan Nisbet stated that the venture would offer Souters accessibility to a variety of online facilities at reasonable rates as well as comparable speeds to metropolitan regions of Scotland.

He also stated that BT’s most recent declaration of plans to upgrade three more exchanges in the south of Scotland was a real impetus to businesses as well as the homes of Hawick, Selkirk and Stranraer.

Mr. Nisbet also added that making use of the presently available copper facilities was a step toward their general strategies that follow the recent announcement for fibre-to-the-cabinet upgrades in telephone exchanges in Dumfries, Innerleithen, Galasheils and Peebles.