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Cumbrian residents and businesses only have until March 2021 to access vouchers that will vastly reduce the cost of getting better broadband connections. Businesses can access up to £7000, and residents can benefit from vouchers of upto £3000. The government has designed the scheme, known as the Rural Gigabit Voucher Scheme, to help people in…
Schools are off, thousands of people are now working from home, and everybody is trying to find new ways to connect to each other and stay in touch. This could put your broadband connection under much more strain – so here’s five incredibly simple but effective things you can do to keep connected. 1. Try…
The Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic has had the biggest impact on our daily lives of anything in living memory – so surely it must have hit our broadband speeds as well? This isn’t true – the world’s broadband infrastructure appears to have coped pretty well so far. Internet speed test giant Ookla has been monitoring download…
