If you suffer from a poor telephone and broadband service then its time to get a new line fitted. The Eastoft broadband infrastructure project to create a better service and choice is now complete. Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) The future is FTTP. Pure fibre optic cables connect you straight to the exchange for faster … Continue reading Broadband Project Completed →

Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) The future is FTTP. Pure fibre optic cables connect you straight to the exchange for faster and more reliable broadband. FTTP is reliable Stable and always there: Fibre to the Premises is tough, and gets the job done whatever the distance. So you always stay connected. FTTP lets you do more … Continue reading Broadband Update →

Hi All, Please check your emails for a confirmation email that is required for us to get the money from the government to proceed with the FTTP supply. Make sure you use the correct setting for your signup. If you are registered company then use company, sole trader use sole trader and residential use residential. … Continue reading Check Your Email →

So it appears that we can move forward at last!!!! We have finally managed to get a small grant off SSE North Lincolnshire Sustainable Development Fund to get us within sight of the finishing post. We are of course grateful to them for helping in this way. However it now depends on all those that … Continue reading Forward at Last →

We are so close to the remedy of this situation but we still need the help of the village people to get to a point of where we can get moving on the installation of broadband in the village that does not have access to faster broadband (to say nothing of reliability which as you … Continue reading Remedy This Situation →

Eastoft Broadband Extension Update as of 29/7/2018 We now have the final figure from Openreach Unfortunately, due to making sure that everyone on the western side of the village can be served, the price has gone up (back to where we were in the first place when only 121 premises were to be served; now … Continue reading Eastoft Broadband Extension →

Time to register your interest Full fibre broadband connections offer the fastest and most reliable speeds available, and the government is committed to a vision of a full fibre Britain What is a gigabit connection? gigabit connection  is the customer friendly name fiber to the premises (FTTP)  The UK now has 95% coverage for superfast … Continue reading Register for fibre →

Important information about our Eastoft broadband bid   

Eastoft Residents hoping for faster Broadband should consider staying with their current telephone and broadband supplier and don’t commit to a new 12 months or longer contract. More to follow shortly ……..

We have received a donation of £1000 towards the supply of FTTP to our part of the village via the CFP. This donation has come from a person who wishes to remain anonymous but has given permission to reveal that they live in the part of the village already served by FTTC. WE have thanked … Continue reading Good, very good news. →

EASTOFT BROADBAND EXTENSION MEETING held at Eastoft Village hall 6th March Many thanks to all those who turned out for an extremely interactive & encouraging meeting last night at the village hall. Also a big thanks to Cllr Reed for attending & her responses to the many questions posed. It was disappointing that no member … Continue reading EASTOFT BROADBAND EXTENSION →

Rescheduled due to Snow 7pm Tuesday March 6th 2018 Further to the meeting on 7th Feb 2018 with Cllr’s Briggs & Reed & Sean Brennan representing N Lincs Council. Sam Scott the SSE Case Officer for N Lincs Council had accepted the invitation though was unable to attend. The meeting held was to review the … Continue reading Broadband Meeting →

Eastoft Broadband Extension update SSE Rejects outright our application for funds. After much discussion the application was unanimously rejected by the panel. The main reasons for the rejection were the panel felt the project did not represent good value for money for almost one third of our annual fund. Furthermore the request for FTTP would … Continue reading SSE Rejects outright our application for funds. →

Eastoft Broadband Extension Update We have now submitted the bid with the assistance of Councillor Reed to SSE for funding towards the Full Fibre, Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) installation. Thanks to you all who have responded with your letters of support. However, if there are any of you that have not yet & would … Continue reading Eastoft Broadband Extension Update →

Further to the meeting yesterday 27/11/2017 with North Lincs Council representatives we would like to bring you up to date on where we are at present. The Meeting The committee have indicated a preference for FTTP and also whether the remainder of the village could be upgraded also. Conformation of costing for both FTTC and … Continue reading Eastoft Broadband Extension →

  Update to Eastoft Superfast Broadband. Eastoft Broadband Extension (Community Funded) We have just had the second meeting with North lincs Council re getting superfast broadband into the rest of the village (we being the committee formed to get things moving and accessing grants etc.) The meeting was to formalise where we needed to go … Continue reading Update to Eastoft Superfast Broadband →

Broadband Pathway Becomes Clearer Tony Woodhouse  posted on Facebook OK  further to this we met councilor Briggs last week. We being Sandra Taylor as a rep of the Parish council and I and had a reasonable time. We learned that BT was proposing to site a cabinet in the grounds of the exchange for those who … Continue reading 102 Properties to Benefit →

Broadband for the rest of the village and how it is progressing. I have been invited to a meeting with the two North Lincs councillors and others on the 13th September in Scunthorpe to try and get the ball rolling properly with regard to funding. I am not sure yet what Openreach are proposing but … Continue reading Broadband Update →

Re: Superfast Broadband Drop-In As you may be aware, I, alongside your two local Councillors, have been working on a project with BT which we hope will deliver superfast broadband to the rest of Eastoft. The Government-funded roll-out of broadband upgraded the green BT cabinet that serves the village to superfast broadband, which has resulted … Continue reading Superfast Broadband Drop-In →