{"id":46530,"date":"2014-08-18T13:26:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T13:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=d9bc6c172373eb36b799511deb5aa534"},"modified":"2014-08-18T13:26:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T13:26:00","slug":"news-story-boost-your-bottom-line-with-a-free-broadband-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=46530","title":{"rendered":"News story: Boost your bottom line with a free broadband grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Many small businesses across the UK can now obtain a free grant to upgrade their business to a faster broadband connection as part of the wider government rollout of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/superfast-broadband-reaches-1-million-more-homes-and-businesses\">superfast broadband<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Broadband Connection Vouchers scheme will enable business owners across 22 cities to apply for a grant of up to \u00a33,000, which will cover the capital and equipment costs of upgrading their connection. <\/p>\n<p>Benefits small businesses could see as a result of a faster connection include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Growing and accessing new markets through better communication with customers and suppliers<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Increasing security through fast secure back-up of data<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Increasing productivity and improving customer service through faster upload and download speeds<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The scheme remains open for applications until 31 March 2015. Visit the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.connectionvouchers.co.uk\/\">Connection Vouchers<\/a> website for more information. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SME owners in 22 cities could be entitled to a grant of up to \u00a33k<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}