Airband passes 134km mark in mission to level up broadband in its home county Worcestershire.

Airband has now laid a buffer-busting 134km of fibre across Worcestershire, reaching some of the hardest-to-reach corners of the county that the rural broadband specialist calls home.

That distance is almost as hard to visualise as it is tricky for people outside the county to pronounce the name of its most famous export. This might help… you’d need to line up 744,445 bottles of the world-famous Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce end-to-end, enough to go round the cloister of Worcester Cathedral 1,340 times, to cover the same distance.

Birmingham and London might be only a few minutes up the M5, or a couple of hours away on the train from Worcestershire Parkway, but in too many parts of rural Worcestershire the broadband experience is lightyears apart from those places. And Airband doesn’t think that’s fair.

Redmond Peel, Airband’s CEO, said:

“Having lived in Worcester for over 30 years, and headquartered Airband in Worcestershire since the company was founded in 2009, my personal motivation to improve rural communities’ access to better broadband has been stronger on our doorstep than any other region we operate in. Our fibre and wireless broadband networks have already transformed connectivity for thousands of people in the county, and here at Airband we’ve got exciting plans to bring faster and more reliable broadband to even more homes and businesses.”

Now, thanks to Airband, 7,000 homes and businesses across the county already have access to broadband speeds that city-folk take for granted. But Airband is not stopping there… with developments already in flight to deploy a further 151km of fibre in 2023 they’re actively rolling out hyperfast fibre broadband connectivity to around 6,000 additional homes and businesses, with plans to reach a further 15,000 by Summer 2024. That’s a lot more bottles of Worcestershire sauce…

Anyone looking for better broadband can check their postcode for coverage here