Superfast Cornwall project brings fibre broadband to Rock and St Minver

Rock and St Minver have become the latest communities to be hooked up to fibre optic broadband under BT's Superfast Cornwall programme.

The villages were connected last week as part of a scheme that began in 2011 and has so far brought fibre broadband within reach of over 45 per cent of homes and businesses across the county, reports the Cornish Guardian.

More than 18,000 properties in Cornwall have signed up to receive super-fast broadband from BT to date.

The £132 million project, which is a partnership between BT, the EU and Cornwall Council, aims to extend fibre broadband access to between 80 and 90 per cent of the county and the Isles of Scilly by 2014.

BT has already promised to roll out the service to more communities within the Trebetherick exchange area over the coming year.

Nigel Ashcroft, programme director of Superfast Cornwall for the Cornwall Development Company, said: "This is the first time a broadband network of this scale has been built in a rural area in the UK."