The sometimes wet and muddy conditions are a far cry from the sunny day 19 years ago when Laura walked up the aisle at Holy Trinity Church, Wallington, in a pure white dress to marry David. But Laura, said: “Moving from an office based job to working outside, was the best thing I ever did. It sounds corny but I love working with my husband.”
As part of the partnership between BT, Surrey County Council and BDUK, David and Laura work on extending faster broadband throughout Surrey including the village of Puttenham where fibre broadband has just ‘gone live’.
David, said: “Every day is different and with this job I’m able to work on a project from start to finish. I enjoy the challenge, it’s very satisfying and working with Laura is an added bonus.The new fibre based broadband services have now started to become available in Puttenham and by the time the roll-out is complete around 1,300 homes and businesses in the village will have access.
Superfast Surrey builds on BT’s own commercial roll-out of fibre broadband in the county, which has already made the technology available to more than 380,000 Surrey homes and businesses. The partnership is working mainly in the more rural, difficult to reach areas, aiming to bring fibre broadband to more than 99 per cent of the county’s homes and businesses by the end of 2014. Superfast Surrey’s ‘programme area’ will provide fibre access to an additional 84,000 premises, which fall outside the private sector’s commercial plans.
The new fibre-based network is open to all broadband service providers on an equal basis. Households and businesses in Surrey will therefore benefit from a highly competitive market, bringing greater choice and affordable prices from a wide range of internet service providers.
