MARKS Tey and fourteen other Essex towns and villages will be benefit from a “huge” high-speed internet update.

As part of a plan to bring full-fibre broadband to an additional 2.7 million homes and business, broadband provider Open reach will be giving full-fibre broadband to a further 67 locations in Essex, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, and Suffolk.

The towns and villages to benefit in Essex include Birch, Chafford, Earls Colne, Fordham, Great Bardfield, Great Horkesley, Great Yeldham, Harlow, Marks Tey, Ongar, Purleigh, Ridgewell, Ramsey, Saffron Walden, Steeple Bumpstead, and Tilbury.

Kieran Wines, Open reach’s regional director for the East, said: "We plan to build even further across the region, to more cities and towns, and our most rural communities.

“And our engineers, of which more than 3,500 live in the region, are doing this at a rapid pace - despite this being a hugely complex engineering project."

More than 4.7 million UK homes and businesses have already upgraded to full-fibre meaning internet users get ultrafast upload speeds.

Normal fibre optic broadband connections use only the fibre cabling between the provider to a telephone cabinet in the area –using older, less efficient copper phone wires to complete the journey.

While full-fibre uses fibre cabling for the entire journey making it much speedier.