Get set up with much faster broadband for free in Scotland

These days, as ever more of people's work and personal lives involve spending time online, having access to good broadband has become an essential and suffering with poor internet connectivity is quite rightly seen as an increasingly major disadvantage for homes and businesses.

By boosting the broadband speed for households, the Scottish Broadband Voucher Scheme will enable individuals and families to make far better use of all online facilities, including working from home, staying in touch via video calling, utilising on-demand TV, streaming movies and so on.

The scheme also covers businesses, which will be empowered to operate far more efficiently, communicating and transacting with both existing and potential clients online.

The Scottish Broadband Voucher Scheme covers the entirety of Scotland. It gives immediate assistance to any home or business anywhere within Scotland which cannot currently access superfast (30 Mbps) broadband speeds and which isn't part of an already planned roll-out of improved broadband.

The intention of the SBVS is to fund the direct installation costs of a property getting set up with a significantly improved broadband service.

That's certainly the case if you choose us as your Internet Service Provider under the Scottish Broadband Voucher Scheme, as the subsidy will covers all the costs of a property getting up and running on our 4G broadband service, which would normally cost a home or business several hundred pounds.

With our 4G broadband service, this includes:-

• Supply and installation of a top-specification 4G router inside your property.
• Supply and installation of a small but very effective high-gain 4G antenna to the outside of your property.
• Supply and installation of a SIM card on the network with the best coverage of your specific location.
• Activation of your new 4G broadband service.

The carefully chosen 4G router we supply will be fully set up and installed for you. This provides full WiFi functionality - so you can share your new 4G connection across multiple internet-enabled devices within your property.

Our professional installers will also fit a small high gain and directional external 4G antenna to the outside of your property and connect this to your 4G router to ensure that you get the best possible 4G signal reception and thus optimum performance of the service.

Please note that the offer of zero-cost installation does not give any applicant the right to specify a mounting location for the outdoor 4G antenna. Although applicants' preferences will be considered if feasible, we will always install the outdoor antenna at the position which delivers the best 4G broadband performance. Government funding will specifically not cover any additional costs involved in a more complex or expensive installation location that is being requested on purely aesthetic grounds.

You can check this for yourself by entering your address details at the Scottish Government's R100 website - www.scotlandsuperfast.com - where you'll be told:

• if your address already has access to a superfast broadband connection, or
• if your address is already part of a planned superfast broadband roll-out, or
• if your address is eligible for an SVBS subsidy

Alternatively, you can just ask us as a registered provider to the SBVS to check on your behalf.

If yours is a residential or business property that qualifies for the subsidy and you choose us as your new broadband provider, the answer is... nothing at all towards getting your new and much faster broadband up and running.

The full costs of getting started with our superfast 4G broadband service will be fully covered by your SBVS subsidy.

The only charge you'll need to pay is the normal monthly subscription cost of our 4G broadband. That's £31.99 including VAT for personal accounts or £35.00 plus VAT for business accounts.

We at National Broadband are proud to have become a registered supplier to the Scottish Broadband Voucher Scheme.

We're delighted to already have numerous homes and businesses across the entirety of Scotland - including in the nation's most rural locations - as happy customers of our broadband services. We now look forward to providing much faster internet connections to even more properties under the Scottish Government’s Scottish Broadband Voucher Scheme.

That completely depends on what coverage is available at your property's location.

At National Broadband, we're partnered with all four of the UK's mobile network operators - that's EE, Vodafone, O2 and Three. This means that we can and will select the very best 4G service for your specific location.