Wessex Internet – how one man’s frustration reshaped rural Dorset

Wessex Internet – how one man’s frustration reshaped rural Dorset

This year marks 15 years since Wessex Internet first began connecting rural communities to reliable full‑fibre broadband: first just across Dorset, before stretching into Somerset, Wiltshire and Hampshire. What began in 2010 as one farmer’s determination to get a decent internet connection has grown into one of the region’s biggest rural success stories. Faced with a costly and impractical quote from a national provider, local farmer James Gibso…