Surrey's superfast broadband project aims to stimulate economic growth to ensure Surrey's continued economic competitiveness. With a resident population of 1.1m, annual output of £26.5bn and approaching 600,000 jobs, Surrey's economy is sizeable. It generates more value than the economies of Birmingham (£20.1bn), Liverpool (£8.6bn) and Leeds (£17.8bn) and is the single largest net contributor to the Exchequer (some £6bn), second only to London.

Surrey Connects, Surrey's Local Enterprise Partnership, acknowledges the importance of superfast broadband in terms of Surrey’s economic competitiveness and in embracing the aim of providing access to superfast broadband to all businesses and residents in the county, aims to:

• stimulate the creation and development of new enterprises, particularly in rural areas
• help rebalance the Surrey economy through supporting export growth and international expansion
• drive better supply chain efficiency
• enable superior business interaction with customers
• enable a flexible workforce, reduce the need to travel and the need for more office space in an area constrained by the amount of developable land
• enable more people either to work from home or work remotely.

What you've told us

Businesses of all sizes from across Surrey have told us that broadband is a priority for them, and that not having access to sufficient speeds really affects their bottom line.

Businesses have said superfast broadband could improve they way they work through the ability to do things such as connect to remote offices and home workers, to allow staff to work on the move and utilise off site data storage.

Find out what businesses in Surrey are saying about Superfast Broadband.

Register your interest

Please register your interest by filling in our online form or read more about how to register.

How to find out more

For more information re the benefits of superfast broadband for businesses see the Openreach website:

• Small to Medium size enterprises (SMEs)
• People running businesses from home

Please also see:

• Questions and answers about superfast broadband
• Help Surrey get superfast broadband
• Superfast broadband news and updates
• Background to the superfast broadband project

Any further questions?

Please contact the superfast broadband project team.