Project Gigabit

Leicestershire County Council has teamed with the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) to boost connectivity in public sector buildings across hard-to-reach areas.

Wessex Internet has connected the New Forest towns of Sway and Brockenhurst to its full fibre network as it continues to deliver a £14m Project Gigabit contract.

GoFibre has leveraged Project Gigabit funding to make full fibre available to 4,000 rural premises in Teesdale.

Up to £800m in Project Gigabit funding will be awarded to Openreach to connect 312,000 rural premises across Britain.

Altnets that have received government funding could be failing to make their cables easily available to other operators, despite this being a condition of receiving taxpayers’ money, according to AssetHUB.

Quickline has secured two new contacts under the Government’s Project Gigabit programme to connect around 108,000 homes and businesses across parts of rural Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.

CityFibre has connected the first customer to its new network in Cambridgeshire, rolled-out as part of the government’s Project Gigabit programme.

Freedom Fibre has been awarded £43m to upgrade broadband infrastructure in rural Cheshire as part of the government’s Project Gigabit rollout.

Quickline has begun connecting premises in West Yorkshire and York, through its Project Gigabit contract won three months ago.

Wessex Internet has bagged its largest Project Gigabit deal so far, securing a £33.5m Government contract to deliver broadband to 21,400 homes and businesses in rural areas of south and west Dorset, along with south Somerset.