Connexin has completed the first stage of its Project Gigabit contract for the provision of hyperfast broadband to more than 34,000 rural homes in Nottinghamshire and West Lincolnshire.
Morrison Telecom Services has won a £45m contract with Openreach that will run until September 2025.
Under this contract, Morrison Telecom Services will work with the Openreach Service Delivery team to provide full fibre connections to customer premises.
Specialist engineers will provide connections, either overhead or through underground ducts, from the nearest distribution point on Openreach’s network to the customer’s premises. This involves installing a splicing box outside the property, which links to a new Optical Network Terminal (ONT) inside the home, connecting to the customer’s router.
Morrison Telecom Services will be operating in two regions, the east and south east of England, including London.
This will create over 200 new job opportunities with the contract expected to hire around 200 field engineers and several office-based support roles in these communities.
Pat Carolan, Morrison Telecom Services’ MD, said: “We now provide telecommunication services from end-to-end, including network survey, design, build, repair, maintenance and now customer connections.