Rural Broadband Arrives in Bridge of Cally; Local Gran Immediately Uses It to Look Up Whether She Still Needs It
7,600 more Perth and Kinross homes now have full fibre; first video call in Glenshee goes so well everyone has to have a lie down.
Rural Perthshire, now fully capable of buffering at gigabit speed. Photo: Peter Barr, “Glenshee Ski Centre - geograph.org.uk - 2614527”, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0
BRIDGE OF CALLY — More than 7,600 homes and businesses across rural Perth and Kinross have been connected to faster broadband, and the region has responded with a level of joy last seen when the Co-op got a new freezer.
In Bridge of Cally, an 88-year-old resident who has lived through three phone boxes and a pager watched an entire video without it stopping. “I didn’t know they moved all the way through,” she said. “I thought films were meant to stop every ten seconds for a wee think.”
In Glenshee, a farmer held his first-ever successful video call with his brother in Canada. “We’d been shouting at each other’s still faces since 2011,” he said. “Turns out he’s got a beard now. I’m furious nobody told me.”
Engineers said the most common request from newly-connected customers was for help turning the wifi off again “because the grandkids will find out.”
The real story: Real: 7,600+ rural PKC premises reached by R100 broadband (Openreach, Oct 2026)
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