Gigaclear/Superfast Essex have now said that the parts of Stambourne which have been connected to their service should now go live in June 2019, another delay. County Broadband say they have completed work in Cornish Hall End and will work on connecting Stambourne and other villages at some stage.

Gigaclear's plans to provide superfast (up to 900Mb/s reduced from a 1Gb/s service, probably due to the inability to guarantee 1Gb/s) to a small part of Stambourne (Cornish Hall End Road) have been delayed from November 2018 to “by March 2019”. Whilst they have now laid the fibre cable to each house’s boundary, they still have to connect to their network, test and “go live”...

Gigaclear have removed their installation fees (previously £230) on connecting new customers to their service.

Gigaclear are currently laying fibre optic cables to Cornish Hall End Road, Stambourne to serve that part of Stambourne/Stambourne Green. This is the fastest form of internet connectivity available in the UK and promises speeds of up to 1000Mbps (1 Gbps). Their plan is to offer this from the end of this year to Cornish Hall End and parts of Stambourne. At the moment, it ...

County Broadband gave a well-attended presentation of their plans for superfast, full-fibre internet connectivity to Stambourne in a meeting at the Village Hall on the 6th March.

Gigaclear have now published their roll-out schedule for connecting homes via fibre-optic cable to their internet infrastructure, so called “FTTP” or “Fibre-To-The-Premises”. This is the fastest form of internet connectivity available in the UK and promises speeds of up to 1000Mbps (1 Gbps). Their plan is to offer this from the end of this year to Cornish Hall End and parts...

OpenReach (a BT subsidiary who maintain the network) have completed their work and orders can now be taken for fibre broadband from most providers (BT, Sky, Plusnet, TalkTalk etc etc) to access Fibre broadband in Stambourne. Speeds will vary depending on how far you are from the cabinet at Hill Farm but even at the edges of Stambourne, they are offering speeds of 15Mbps, ro...

There is some good news, finally, for the BT/OpenReach upgrade for Stambourne that will provide fibre broadband to some in the village.Work has been taking place to clear the roadside ducts so that the fibre cable can connect the new cabinet at Hill Farm to the exchange in Ridgewell. This is believed to be the last major piece of work due to take place.Indeed, the Superfast Es...