Cornwall-based broadband provider, Wildanet, features in a new film launched today by ITN Business, taking an in-depth look at the development and roll out of digital infrastructure in the UK.
Digital Britain: Connecting the Nation is being aired for the first time at the key telecoms industry event Connected Britain, taking place over two-days (Sep 11-12) at ExCel London. It can also be watched here.
Hosted by Duncan Golestani from the ITN London Studio, the film examines the huge importance to the UK economy of the digital sector, which in 2019 contributed nearly £151 billion to the economy and constituted nine per cent of the national workforce.
The programme features key industry and news-style reports along with sponsored editorial profiles.
Wildanet features alongside industry heavyweights Openreach and nexfibre as well as Ordnance Survey as organisations which are playing a key part in the digital revolution and enabling connectivity regionally and nationally.
The news-style programme was produced in collaboration with Connected Britain, where it will be premiered, together with leading industry and trade groups Mobile UK, TechUK and the UK Telecoms Innovation Network (UKTIN).
Digital Britain: Connecting the Nation looks behind the scenes at Wildanet’s mission to extend connectivity to some of the most remote areas of the south west, including through its work with Project Gigabit.
The programme also includes an interview with Merlin Hanbury-Tenison from Cabilla Cornwall about the difference Wildanet’s activity is making in Cornwall, the partnership between his business and Wildanet and Wildanet’s support for its Thousand Year Trust researching and preserving the unique habitat of the Atlantic Temperate Rainforest.
