Dorset-based Wessex Internet is celebrating 10,000 customers by giving away free broadband to one family for 10 years.
The lucky customer, Dan Phillips from Bisterne in Hampshire is one of around 500 new customers each month for the growing company.
Wessex Internet installs mostly rural internet to homes and businesses across Dorset, South Somerset, Wiltshire and the New Forest and has four government Project Gigabit contracts worth £71m deliver full fibre broadband to over 53,000 properties in the next four years.
Hector Gibson Fleming, CEO of Wessex Internet, said: “We’re thrilled to welcome our 10,000th customer to Wessex Internet.
“We are passionately focussed on expanding our services to places where we deliver real social value, and working with our Project Gigabit contracts is enabling us to do that faster and more consistently than ever before. Our continuing trend of a 30% network wide take-up proves that our targeted strategy is paying off.”
Dan Phillips, the 10,000th customer commented: “As a director of a tech business and with my wife frequently teaching online, we’re delighted to now have an ultrafast broadband connection as it will make a massive difference to our businesses.
“The whole Wessex Internet team have been friendly and charming from the start. We’re excited that our installation has made us the company’s 10,000th customer, particularly as Sen, the installation engineer did such a good job despite having two puppies trying to assist him. Congratulations Wessex Internet on reaching this milestone!”