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More than 800 hard-to-reach premises across Barnard Castle, Middleton-in-Teesdale and Winston can now access GoFibre’s network as the altnet completes phase one of its Project Gigabit contract.

Quickline’s network is now available to a total of 1,800 new homes across the Lincolnshire communities of Goulceby, Martin, Timberland and Belton.

Boosting rural connectivity could add £65.1bn to the UK economy and increase employment by 6.8%, according to research from Cebr for VMO2.

Fibrus will be the official shirt sponsor of Workington Town Rugby Club for the next two seasons.

Vorboss has joined Ofcom’s ‘Women in Tech’ pledge and aims to be the first UK network operator to have gender parity in its civil engineering workforce, with this target set for 2027.

Five charities from GoFibre rollout regions have received funding towards crucial projects from the altnet’s GoFurther Fund.

Warminster is one of six new UK towns added to Lit Fibre’s rollout plans, which look to cover 500,000 UK homes by 2026, reports the Wiltshire Times.

The Autumn Statement confirms that the Full Expensing policy, which may help altnets reduce rollout costs, will be made permanent.

Openreach has begun building a new fibre network in Woking, alongside delivery partner Circet.

MS3 has begun connecting residents in Mexborough, South Yorkshire to its new full fibre network.