Deeside firms frustrated at slow broadband speeds

Small firms on one of Europe's biggest industrial parks say poor broadband speeds are damaging them and some could be forced to move out.

The Welsh government and BT's Superfast Cymru programme is supposed to deliver fast internet services to most of Wales by next year.

Deeside Industrial Estate is within the region's enterprise zone but small businesses talk of frustration.

BT said it was committed to making fibre broadband widely available.

Adam Butler runs an online recruitment company on the business park and said he is "incredibly disappointed" by what is available and it was stopping him from taking on more staff.

Tony Parry, who runs a delivery firm on Deeside, has also been struggling with slow, unreliable internet speeds from BT. He said he gets faster speeds at home in Llanduno, Conwy.

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