VILLAGES in the Towy Valley are set to get superfast broadband, the Welsh Government and BT have announced.

Dryslwyn, Gwynfe and Rhandirmwyn will see work begin before the end of September 2015 as part of the Superfast Cymru programme.

They will join hundreds of communities across Wales where fast fibre broadband is already live or due to be switched on.

The announcement means that work will be underway in every telephone exchange area in Wales by the end of September 2015.

Revealing year three of the SFC programme, Deputy Minister for Skills and Technology, Julie James said, “The Superfast Cymru programme is ambitious and challenging, bringing fast fibre broadband across Wales. We should not underestimate the sheer scale of it.

“Communities throughout Carmarthenshire will have the option of accessing fast fibre broadband. This is a tremendous achievement and excellent news for businesses and households.

“By the time the Superfast Cymru programme is completed in Spring 2016 Wales will be one of the most highly connected countries in Europe with 96 per cent of premises able to access faster internet speeds.”

The Superfast Cymru programme, a partnership between BT and the Welsh Government, is a huge undertaking laying 17,500kms of optical fibre cable and installing around 3,000 new green roadside cabinets across Wales.

So far, over 230,000 homes and businesses have access to fibre broadband and work has already begun in every single local authority area in Wales with approximately 400 engineers having worked more than 400,000 hours on the project.

Fibre broadband will help transform the broadband landscape across Wales and enable local businesses to compete on a global level.

High-speed broadband makes it possible for businesses to be located anywhere and improve opportunities for business creativity and entrepreneurship. It will allow both urban and rural businesses, particularly SMEs to innovate, open up new markets and increase their sales volume. It has the capacity to improve the supply-chain, through effective data sharing, etc. It will enable businesses to access new technologies such as cloud computing and to make use of enhanced collaboration tools and hosted applications.

To find out when fibre broadband is coming to your area visit the Superfast Cymru website where information is provided for each postcode area in addition to the expected speed for each property:

www.superfastcymru.com