Homes in Devon, Somerset, Norfolk and Wiltshire will obtain super-fast broadband, the supervision has said.
Making certain farming areas have swift net services is segment of a wider expostulate to make the UK the most appropriate place for broadband by 2015.
Each county will take a portion of the 530m account the supervision has set in reserve to account farming broadband.
The Department for Culture mentioned that all the UK's local authorities will take appropriation in the next couple of years.
"This is segment of our outline for probably every residents in the UK to have access to super-fast broadband," mentioned enlightenment personal assistant Jeremy Hunt.
The supervision acknowledges that its 530m pot - that is allowance left over from an progressing digital switchover account - will not be sufficient to give the whole nation swift broadband.
Private investment will moreover be needed.
The successful counties were amid 18 that originally bid is to money.
Devon and Somerset will take around 30m, Norfolk 15m and Wiltshire 4m and they will then select a executive and technology most appropriate matched for their needs.
The supervision anticipates that the technologies will be a blend of mobile, heavenly body and twine connections.
Wiltshire Council has already affianced to outlay 16m on broadband services opposite the county.
The supervision voiced the initial tranche of its farming broadband outline in October 2010, surroundings up 3 pilots in North Yorkshire, the Highlands and Islands of Scotland and Cumbria and Herefordshire.
It has been indicted of being far as well slow to obtain the trials up and running. So far nothing are live and usually two have started the routine of anticipating a definite able to offer services.
Fujitsu has affianced to erect a super-fast network opposite the whole of farming Britain. It has mentioned it will offer fibre-to-the-home technology to around 5 million homes. That could give homes with speeds of up to 100Mbps (megabits per second).
In demand to do so it will rest on using BT's infrastructure - the ducts and poles that give write and broadband services around the UK.
Ofcom has forced the telco to open up its network but a few have argued that the prices it is formulation to assign for access are as well high.
Revised pricing is approaching in June.
According to BT, Fujitsu has nonetheless to come together its ducts and poles trial.
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