Superfast broadband for village residents

The company is to lay fibre-optic cables to replace its copper network, allowing 15,000 homes in East Yorkshire to benefit from broadband speeds 10 times faster than currently available.

About 330 households in Woodmansey, between Hull and Beverley, will be the first to be plugged into the new network in the autumn, and residents will be contacted by KC to advise them of the upgrade.

It means households will be able to stream videos, high definition TV, gaming, music, websites and other online services to multiple devices like PCs, iPads and TVs, simultaneously and with excellent picture quality, the firm said.

The company said it had chosen Woodmansey because it was in one of the “technically most challenging” areas to deliver broadband.

KC chief executive Kevin Walsh said: “Our fibre deployment is the latest stage of our ongoing work and investment to make sure our customers in Hull and East Yorkshire have access to the very best broadband in the UK.

“During the past year we’ve upgraded our network and increased its capacity so that the vast majority of our customers can already achieve download speeds that would be the envy of many broadband users elsewhere in the UK.

“That upgrade was the first stage in our programme to provide next-generation broadband and it’s meant we can offer speeds that are more than fast enough to meet the current demands of most customers.

“The trend is for people to spend much more time online, and use services that need much more bandwidth.

“Installing fibre is the next stage of our programme and means we’ll be able to meet the needs of the most bandwidth-hungry households, today and in the future.”