Fast fibre broadband is now available in Monmouth thanks to Superfast Cymru, Deputy Minister for Skills and Technology, Ken Skates AM has announced during a visit to the town. This is the first area in Monmouthshire to benefit from the Superfast Cymru programme. The first households and businesses in the area are now able to access fast fibre broadband. Superfast broadband enables businesses to work faster and more efficiently, benefitting from faster upload and download speeds and reducing the need to travel, helping to create jobs and expand businesses. At home superfast broadband is not just about a faster internet experience or about doing one thing quicker. It's about everyone in the house being able to do their own thing online, all at the same time, whether that is streaming films, downloading music, studying or keeping in touch with loved ones. Communities including Cross Ash, Little Mill, Gobion, Llantilio and Raglan will also benefit from high speed fibre broadband by summer 2015 as part of the Superfast Cymru roll-out. Deputy Minister for Skills and Technology, Ken Skates AM was joined by BT Programme Director, Ed Hunt to take a look at the cabinet in Monmouth which is now delivering fast fibre speeds. "The Superfast Cymru programme is probably the most ambitious in the UK.  We aim to reach 96% of properties by the end of Spring 2016 making fibre available to more people more quickly than the rest of the UK."  Ed Hunt said: "Super-fast fibre broadband in Monmouth offers huge benefits to local residents and businesses and will help our local economy to flourish. Whatever you're doing online, you can do it better and faster with fibre. Whether it's shopping, downloading music and video, watching TV, social networking, studying or researching homework, once you've switched to fibre you'll never look back. Superfast Cymru is the largest partnership of its kind in the UK. It is working to achieve, when combined with commercial roll-outs, the Welsh Government's aim of providing 96% of premises in Wales with access to fast fibre broadband by the end of Spring 2016. Households and businesses in these areas which want to take advantage of the benefits of fast fibre broadband should contact an internet service provider (ISP) of their choice to place an order. Information about the roll-out is published on the Superfast Cymru website (http://www.superfast-cymru.com">www.superfast-cymru.com) including a coverage map which provides details of roll-out plans looking approximately 12 months ahead.