Gigaclear announces completion of its Appleton and Eaton fibre network

The fibre picture of the UK is improving, and Gigaclear has completed its
roll-out in rural Oxfordshire in just three months. The firm has now built the planned
network passing some 400 properties, and is seeing take-up of over 40% with
more homes signing up each week.

The Gigaclear FTTH network offers a variety of price points, based around
buying a guaranteed speed with all products bursting to a Gigabit, with the
network running as a symmetric service which sets it apart from the ultra-fast
services that big providers like Openreach and Virgin Media supply.

With more and more Gigabit fibre projects popping up across the UK, the talk
of a digital divide between rural and urban areas is becoming ever more
complex, as there are now options to have a rural lifestyle, but still be
welded to the Internet if that is how you wish to live.

Gigaclear is not stopping with this roll-out, four more communities in
Oxfordshire and work in Rutland are due in the next few months, and a massive
150 communities are apparently in the discussion
phase.

One of these areas appears to be Watlington Community Broadband. Interestingly the village of
Watlington appears to have a WBC ADSL2+ service, so those in the main part of
the village should already have fairly reasonable speeds. Another unusual thing
is that Anna Badcock represents Watlington on the South Oxfordshire District
Council and has formed Watlington Community Broadband with county councillor
Caroline Newton.