More than 90% of Herefordshire homes and businesses can access superfast broadband and speeds of 30mpbs or above according to new figures released by ThinkBroadband, the UK’s largest independent broadband information website.

Superfast broadband means that a whole family could be online at the same time, on various platforms and tablets, all without any time delay or frozen screens.

This has largely come about through Herefordshire Council’s broadband project, Fastershire, which has helped increased superfast coverage in the county from 0.6% of properties in 2012.

The project’s existing rollout contracts will see the county’s superfast broadband coverage rise to 96%, however, the Council is due to approve Fastershire’s new strategy which will push the coverage even further.

For the remaining hardest to reach properties that still require access to faster broadband and are not part of any planned rollout, Stage 5 of Fastershire’s new strategy will support communities through grant funding to contract directly with broadband providers.

Herefordshire continues to lead the way in the rollout of the new full fibre broadband. The Government recently announced its aspirations to see a ‘full fibre Britain’ 2033 but this is yet to become policy.

To find out if your property can access faster broadband, visit www.fastershire.com.