Engineers get trained up for Cornwall’s superfast broadband project

It has been revealed that a new training centre is being opened in North Cornwall to train up apprentices who will then go on to help rollout the superfast broadband project across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.

It has been revealed recently that the superfast broadband project across Cornwall is to be stepped up, with a new training centre being opened in North Cornwall in order to train up apprentices. The training facility is located in Bodmin, Cornwall, and it will have the capacity to train more than one hundred and fifty apprentice engineers, who will then go on to work on the superfast broadband rollout.

There are already some trained engineers working on the £132 million superfast broadband initiative and once these engineers have been trained they will be joining them. In September of last year British Telecom stated that it would be providing its superfast broadband service to ninety percent of homes in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.

Liv Garfield, chief executive of BT’s local network business Openreach, said: “The Superfast Cornwall initiate presents a huge engineering challenge. More than 130,000 kilometres of optical fibre will be installed in the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly network. In the coming years, engineers will be installing superfast broadband in tens of thousands of local homes and businesses.”

One of the apprentices was formerly a broadcast journalist for BBC Radio Cornwall and he said: “It’s great to be working on the first steps of the next generation network for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. It’s a very important development for the area.”

Source – BBC