\n The island has a long history having been home to Norse travellers and is now currently home to a Royal Air Force radar station and the SaxaVord space port.\n<\/p>\n
\n The new network has been built by Openreach and sees signal travel from the head end exchange at Sullom Voe and crosses two subsea cables before reaching the island.\n<\/p>\n
\n Business Minister Richard Lochhead said: \u201cConnecting the island community of Unst is a remarkable achievement and a clear demonstration of our commitment to delivering faster broadband to communities across Scotland through the Scottish Government\u2019s R100 programme.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cAccess to reliable, high-speed internet is transforming lives and livelihoods across the country. It empowers small businesses, enables remote working and helps attract new investment. We remain committed to working with Openreach to expand the reach of our investment in faster, more dependable broadband \u2013 ensuring that public funding delivers tangible benefits for communities in every part of the country.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Robert Thorburn, Openreach Partnership Director for Scotland, said: \u201cWe\u2019re committed to making sure the most rural parts of Scotland have access to fast and reliable broadband \u2013 and this is just another example.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cOur extensive network means residents can shop around and find the best deals that suit their needs. But it\u2019s important to remember that upgrades don\u2019t happen automatically. People need to order it to take advantage of the technology.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The island has a long history having been home to Norse travellers and is now currently home to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1638,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-177225","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-internet","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}