Bringing full fibre to rural Berkshire
Our full fibre network already reaches communities across Berkshire, from the racehorse country of the Downs to the commuter villages of the east. Here are some of the places where Gigaclear is live or on its way:
Berkshire is often thought of as commuter country, but step away from the towns and it is deeply rural: the racehorse gallops of the Lambourn valley, the farms of the West Berkshire Downs, and the string of villages threaded along the Kennet and the Thames. Those villages carry a lot of home-workers and small businesses, yet many have been left on slow, part-fibre connections because they sit too far from the exchange for the old technology to deliver.
Gigaclear runs fibre all the way to the property, and not just to a cabinet on the main road, you get the same fast speeds up and down the line, whether you are working from home in a Downs village, running a rural business, or keeping a busy household online all at once. For a county this close to the capital, a proper connection should be a given.
Fast broadband is only part of what keeps a village alive. Through our £100,000 Rural Sports Club Fund we back the grassroots clubs at the heart of Berkshire community life, helping with the kit and equipment that keeps people playing
Thinking about making the switch in Berkshire? Here are the answers to the questions we get asked most.