Eight Cornish communities have been declared as the initial in the county to obtain super-fast fibre-optic broadband.
Leedstown, the Chiverton Cross area, St Agnes, Portreath, St Day, Devoran, Stenalees and Par will be the initial communities to benefit, BT said.
More than 10,000 businesses and homes in the areas will have speeds of up to 100Mbps by the finish of March.
The 132m project, led by BT, will give Cornwall a few of the fastest broadband speeds in the world.
The project, that has 53m of European funding, will broach super-fast twine ocular broadband to 80% to 90% of businesses and households in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly by 2014.
Download speeds, now about 2Mbps, will enlarge to up to 100Mbps, now seen in usually a few countries in the world.
The European Union wants associate states to supply adults with a minimum of 30Mbps broadband by 2020, with all nations gift simple broadband - normally regarded as 2Mbps - for all by 2013.
The UK risks descending tainted of this second aim since it has motionless to check the hurl out of simple 2Mbps broadband to all homes until 2015.
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