A County Broadband customer is celebrating their new gigabit-speed full fibre connection in style this summer after winning a cutting-edge barbecue.
East of England rural community provider County Broadband launched a competition for eligible new customers across its rollout area to win a Traeger Timberline D2 850 Pellet BBQ earlier this summer.
The Timberline features innovative grill technology with the Traeger smartphone app allowing owners to control the entire cook, including smoke and temperature settings, from the comfort of their phone. The app also features a timer setting to switch on the bbq ready for your return home.
The lucky competition winner also received a free connection to their new full fibre service as well as a powerful free County Broadband wi-fi router and a Supercard high street voucher membership.
County Broadband is delivering full fibre broadband in over 300 villages and market towns across the East of England, backed by a combined £146 million of private investment from Aviva Investors, to help drive economic growth and provide reliable access to modern online services.
Full fibre broadband, also known as Fibre-To-The-Premises (FTTP), is the installation of fibre optic cables directly into premises. The digital infrastructure provides gigabit speeds of up to 1,000 Mbps (megabits per second) which is 11 times quicker than pre-existing Victorian copper networks.
Full fibre broadband can also be upgraded to over 10,000 Mbps speeds in the future and provides vastly superior network reliability due to the technology of fibre optics and the FTTP infrastructure.
In contrast, old and slow copper-based superfast networks are based on Fibre-To-The-Cabinet (FTTC) networks in which fibre cables are sent to roadside cabinets and distributed via copper cabling.
County Broadband, based in Aldham, near Colchester in Essex, specialises in designing, building and deploying gigabit-speed full fibre infrastructure in rural and hard-to-reach communities which have been typically overlooked by large national providers.
Whether you’re a resident or business, you can check if you’re covered in County Broadband’s rollout by entering your postcode at www.countybroadband.co.uk where you can also register your interest in finding out more about the full fibre infrastructure and service.
