Wessex Internet

Wessex Internet (WI) are inviting Stourpaine residents to the Village Hall on Tuesday 24 October for a Community Meeting to find out about their plans on bringing full fibre broadband to Stourpaine.

Time is 18:30, Tue 24 October 2023
WI email: community@wessexinternet.com
WI Phone: 0333 240 7997

Funding is through Project Gigibit North Dorset

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Following a meeting with Wessex Internet on Wednesday 17 May 2023, the latest update is that the Planning effort for the rollout into Stourpaine village has been delayed.

Work commence is now expected for early June 2023.

Little progress other than a rumoured “early Autumn”

Work commenced 09 October 2023 for cable laying into and around Stourpaine with town work expected in the following 8-10 weeks for completion.

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Wessex Internet now offer a Social Tariff for full fibre to current and new customers and one for its wireless connection for existing customers.

You must be in receipt of one of the following benefits:

• Universal Credit (UC)
• Pension Credit (PC)
• Income-based Employment Support Allowance (I-ESA)
• Income Support (IS)
• Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance (I-JSA)

Fuller details here: https://www.wessexinternet.com/social-tariff/

• £17.50 per month
• 35Mbps download, 15Mbps upload
• Unlimited monthly usage
• 12 month contract

Compare with BT‘s Social Tariff: the basic £15 a month plan includes average speeds of 36Mbps but you would also have to include line rental.

Ofcom offers unbiased information: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-telecoms-and-internet/advice-for-consumers/costs-and-billing/social-tariffs.

Money Saving Expert: https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/compare-broadband-deals/broadband-social-tariffs/.

Remember there are mobile phone SIM-only social tariffs also through VOXI and EE (pending).
If you a a light phone user, you might consider 1p Mobile instead.

Wessex Internet have just bucked the price hike trends of the bigger broadband providers by announcing a price drop for most of their Full Fibre packages.

• Packages have been rationalised with Upload speeds now half that of download, which is fast.
• Full Fibre Lite is unaffected for speed and price being the entry-level package.
• All Packages have a £49.00 Activation Fee.

Check out https://www.wessexinternet.com/for-home/

Here is a comparison of the new against the old:

Home Package	Old	New	saving
Full Fibre 900	£84.00/m	£79.00/m	£5.00/m
Full Fibre 500	c.f., FF350, was £59.00/m	£55.00/m	£4.00/m & Faster
Full Fibre 350	Was £59.00/m	Discontinued	A. Speed up to new FF500 (£4.00/m) B. Slow down to new FF250 (£19.50/m)
Full Fibre 250	c.f., FF100, was £44.00/m	£39.50/m	£4.50/m
Full Fibre 100	£44.00/m	Discontinued	Speed up to new FF250 (£4.50/m)
Full Fibre Lite	£29.00/m	£29.00/m	No change

Wessex Internet is about to deliver Full Fibre into Stourpaine village.

See Wessex Internet – Full Fibre Rollout – Update

https://www.wessexinternet.com/

A new dedicated page has been added to Stourpaine Matters to update you on where and when and to offer technical and other advice advice in support of those who wish to transition into high speed broadband.

Wessex Internet are about to provide full fibre broadband into Stourpaine. A number of existing wireless broadband Customers have already signed.

There will be a meeting to hear about Wessex Internet‘s plans in the White Horse Inn on Monday 20 March 2023 from 18:00 to 19:30.

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