{"id":232197,"date":"2025-10-17T19:37:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T19:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/232197\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T19:37:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T19:37:15","slug":"councils-900k-project-to-improve-rural-broadband-in-derbyshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/232197\/","title":{"rendered":"Council&#8217;s \u00a3900k project to improve rural broadband in Derbyshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Broadband speeds for residents in rural areas of Derbyshire will be given a boost from a \u00a3900,000 project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Derbyshire County Council announced on Thursday two grant programmes using <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalderbyshire.org.uk\/home.aspx\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 jZoZnB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Digital Derbyshire<\/a> funding to improve broadband where speeds are slower.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">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=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">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<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">The grants will provide a full fibre network to areas of &#8220;hard to reach&#8221; premises and provide short-term solutions to remote areas where a fixed full fibre network is too expensive and no commercial roll-out is planned, the council added.<\/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":232198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[174,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-232197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-internet","9":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}