Hetton Hall full fibre upgrade
Hetton Hall in Northumberland now has ultrafast broadband.
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00:00 Hi I'm Richard Allen, this is Hetton Hall in North Northumberland, a fantastic part
00:11 of the countryside, the only downside was that the speed was very very low.
00:15 The guy that came, Jamie, he was really good, he was very helpful, got it installed very
00:22 quickly and there was no fuss, there was no disruption, there was no mess and he made
00:27 sure everything was running properly and correctly.
00:30 I'm Michael from Chief Engineers up in Northumberland.
00:32 We've done the first installations today and the customer is now getting 150 meg which
00:38 is an absolute life changer for the residents.
00:41 To get this build live in Hetton Hall we have come off the head end which is in Berwick
00:45 which is about 40 miles north of here.
00:49 We've utilised the existing network and then the last three and a half kilometres have
00:54 been wall ploughed into the ground, that's where a big kind of track machine that went
00:58 all along the grass verges and buried in the fibre cable.
01:01 It's obviously caused considerably less disruption for the residents through pledging of the
01:06 vouchers and working together with the council to have managed to deliver this project for