Wessex Internet, an independent rural broadband provider to expand its broadband network to 140,000 rural homes and businesses in the South West
Wessex Internet, a family-owned business that cares deeply about the rural communities it connects, was originally founded in 2010 to bring an internet connection to the founder’s local village based close to Blandford Forum in Dorset.
Since then, Wessex Internet has since grown into a Dorset success story and has already installed full fibre broadband to a network of 40,000 hard-to-reach homes and businesses across Dorset, Somerset, Wiltshire, and Hampshire.
Its success has attracted a recent investment of £50m from the National Wealth Fund that, combined with £72m awarded from BDUK as part of Project Gigabit, will proudly help them to expand to an incredible 137,000 homes and businesses in rural parts of the South West, and support local communities that are often left behind by bigger broadband providers – bridging the digital divide.
Wessex Internet has proven that it is possible to provide rural communities with ultrafast, reliable full fibre broadband – an essential service that will help to keep local communities thriving. Their approach to community focussed broadband is even award winning! From being named as the UK’s Rural Enterprise at the 2024 Countryside Alliance Awards and the winner of the Best Community Project at the 2024 INCA awards.
Not only are they focussed on the quality and service, Wessex Internet is also known for its ‘sustainability first’ approach to building the broadband network. The company will always work closely with the community, farmers and landowners to pick the best route for laying cables to minimise disruption and the need for roadworks wherever possible.
Understanding the communities they build to and serve is at the heart of the company and in addition to working closely with them, for every area they build to, the company commits to support a local project and provides a connection to full fibre broadband for only £1.
The Yellow Bus Project located in Shillingstone, Dorset has been a recent beneficiary. A spokesperson at the Yellow Bus Project has said, “We can enable school children who visit the site to instantly research topics that spring up during their visits. It has also allowed us to develop our social media with informative videos and posts, keeping everyone in the community informed”.
Award-winning and ultrafast rural broadband with download speeds of up to 900 Mbps, 13 times faster than the UK average, from just £29/month across Dorset, Somerset, Wiltshire and Hampshire. Find out if you can switch today: www.wessexinternet.com [with tracking link embedded]