KCOM has announced the first three winners of its Digital Inclusion Grants, aimed at improving lives in communities across Hull, East Yorkshire and north Lincolnshire.
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Hastings and Rye MP, Sally-Ann Hart met Openreach engineers working in Hastings to learn about the new £13m fibre network being built in the town.
Openreach’s network will connect most of the premises Hastings and Rye constituency.
Hart was given a tour of the work, which involves engineers overlaying copper cables with fibreoptic cables which run from the exchange in Hastings.
“We were able to show Sally-Ann one of our latest innovations, ribbonised fibre, which can connect multiple fibres all at once, without them being spliced individually, said Phil Royal, director for the South East, Openreach’s Chief Engineer’s team.
“With more people than ever working from home and flexible working becoming more common place it is essential that we have the infrastructure in place to allow this to happen,” added Sally-Ann Hart, MP for Hastings and Rye.
