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Thu, 3/03/2022 - 16:52
Openreach has completed the second and final phase of Superfast West Yorkshire and York programme which has seen fibre broadband made available West Yorkshire.
The five West Yorkshire councils, City of York Council, and West Yorkshire Combined Authority have been working closely with Openreach since 2013.
In this time more than 114,000 premises have been upgraded with around 11,000 of the more recently added premises being connected to a new ultrafast full fibre network.
As part of this contract, Openreach has enabled 97 exchanges, built more than 1,200 fibre structures, erected hundreds of new telegraph poles and laid thousands of kilometres of underground fibre optic cables.
Hundreds of homes and businesses in the village of Queensbury in Bradford will be the last to go live under the partnership.
Robert Thorburn, Openreach Partnership Director for the North, said: “Our own work sees full fibre being built to hard-to-reach parts of West Yorkshire including Cullingworth, Flockton, Kirkburton, Otley and South Elmsall and last year we announced plans for a further 325,000 premises including more than 40,000 in rural, harder to reach communities.
Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire, added: “Although this phase of the programme is at an end, I remain committed to seeing Superfast West Yorkshire and York continue its work in the future, so that everyone and every business in West Yorkshire has the opportunity to connect to reliable services for work or play.”
Over the lifetime of Superfast West Yorkshire & York more than £45 million has been invested from a combination of sources including grants from Building Digital UK (part of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport), European Regional Development Fund, Local Enterprise Partnership Funding and Openreach.
