{"id":452,"date":"2019-04-16T14:51:07","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T13:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.dorsetforyou.gov.uk\/digital-first\/?p=452"},"modified":"2019-04-16T14:54:15","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T13:54:15","slug":"superfast-broadband-its-the-norm-in-dorset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/2019\/04\/16\/superfast-broadband-its-the-norm-in-dorset\/","title":{"rendered":"Superfast broadband . . . it\u2019s the Norm in Dorset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friendly new face is showing people in Dorset how easy it is to get better broadband.<\/p>\n<p>Digital Norm is a fun character developed by the Superfast Dorset programme. His family switches to superfast broadband and saves money at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Norm has been appearing in town centres, local newspapers, on council buses and social media. And there\u2019s an\u00a0<u><a class=\"ext-link wpel-icon-right\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ncjd3mQ9ntg\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer follow\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">online animation<\/a><\/u>\u00a0showing how Norm and his family transform their home WiFi.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"880\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ncjd3mQ9ntg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>More than 97 per cent of Dorset premises can now get superfast fibre broadband and over half of homes and businesses have already switched, making it the norm in Dorset<\/p>\n<p>These faster, more reliable connections mean everyone can be online at the same time, quicker downloads, TV and films on demand and video calling without the annoying lag.<\/p>\n<p>But the uplift in speeds isn\u2019t automatic \u2013 you must contact your internet provider and ask to switch to fibre broadband.<\/p>\n<p>Superfast Dorset won Government funding to create the Digital Norm campaign including the short film, which can also be seen <u><a class=\"ext-link wpel-icon-right\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/superfast\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer follow\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">on the Superfast Dorset website<\/a>.<\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friendly new face is showing people in Dorset how easy it is to get better broadband. Digital Norm is a fun character developed by the Superfast Dorset programme. His family switches to superfast broadband and saves money at the same time. Norm has been appearing in town centres, local newspapers, on council buses and&hellip; <span class=\"kuorinka-read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/2019\/04\/16\/superfast-broadband-its-the-norm-in-dorset\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Superfast broadband . . . it\u2019s the Norm in Dorset<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions\/457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}