The local telephone exchange has been linked up to the rapidly-expanding network by BT engineers and now only nine more exchanges in the county are waiting to be connected.
Councillor Bob Tidy, Lead Member for e-government at East Sussex County Council, said: “Crowhurst brings us another important step closer to our objective of providing all our communities with access to broadband. By May next year, we shall have reached our target and people in our towns and in our rural areas will all be able to benefit from broadband.
“This technology opens up an express route to a world of video, music, gaming and education and it also gives people in rural areas like Crowhurst the option of working from home. People can access corporate networks and files as easily and as quickly as if they were in the office."
Councillor Tidy believes that broadband can help to stimulate the economic regeneration of the county’s rural communities. He said: “Businesses need no longer be at a disadvantage by basing themselves in the countryside as broadband gives them fast access to customers and suppliers across the globe.”
Through its Broadband East Sussex partnership with BT, Access East Sussex, SEEDA, Sussex Enterprise, the East Sussex Economic Partnership and the Learning & Skills Council, East Sussex County Council has taken a lead role in speeding up the availability, take-up and use of broadband in the county.
To find out more about broadband and what it can do for you and your community, visit www.broadbandeastsussex.co.uk.
Free, impartial business advice is available by calling Broadband East Sussex on (01273) 482288 or email broadband@eastsussex.gov.uk
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