{"id":206804,"date":"2025-10-17T15:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T15:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/206804\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T15:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T15:32:08","slug":"councils-900k-project-to-improve-rural-broadband-in-derbyshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/206804\/","title":{"rendered":"Council&#8217;s \u00a3900k project to improve rural broadband in Derbyshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Broadband speeds for residents in rural areas of Derbyshire will be given a boost from a \u00a3900,000 project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Derbyshire County Council announced on Thursday two grant programmes using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalderbyshire.org.uk\/home.aspx\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Digital Derbyshire, external<\/a> funding to improve broadband where speeds are slower.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">About 32,000 homes and businesses receive less than 100 megabits per second in areas with no prospect of full fibre broadband within the next three years, the council said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council&#8217;s cabinet member for net zero and environment, Carol Wood, said: &#8220;By launching these two grant programmes, we can help improve broadband speeds for lots of local people and help prevent rural communities from falling behind in the digital divide.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Broadband speeds for residents in rural areas of Derbyshire will be given a boost from a \u00a3900,000 project.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1638,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-206804","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\/206804","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=206804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}