Rollout

Voneus has begun connecting residents on Walney Island just eight weeks after it began building the network.

Poor connectivity is causing a quarter of young people in rural areas to consider moving to a town or city in the next 12 months, according to research from Virgin Media O2.

More than 43,000 homes and businesses in Reading can access Openreach’s full fibre services with work ongoing.

Openreach is making its full fibre services available in Thistleton and Uppingham as it expands its Rutland network.

Over 30,000 homes and businesses in Eastbourne are now able to access CityFibre’s network, as the provider enters new areas of the town.

Over 57,000 Scottish properties in hard-to-reach areas now have access to Full Fibre through the Scottish Government’s £600m Reaching 100% programme.

brsk is adding 30,000 homes and businesses in Runcorn, Cheshire, to its footprint in the north west, taking its total premises passed in the town to 45,000.

CGI has delivered ultra-fast rural broadband connectivity to selected sites across Norfolk using Low Earth Orbit satellite technology, along with a free-to-use public wireless service. 

Openreach will address thousands more premises in Angus and Dundee as it kicks off work to build a new network for Arbroath.

Virgin Media’s full fibre broadband is now available to more than 20,000 additional homes in Milton Keynes.