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Openreach engineers In Northumberland have upgraded The Pennines Wildlife & Rescue Sanctuary, which has struggled with slow broadband speeds since moving to the foothills of the Pennines.

TalkTalk’s Future Fibre Fund has made an £800 donation to the Joanna Project, a Leeds-based charity that helps women facing complex disadvantages, to help it purchase new technology for its Support Workers.

Four more rural villages in North Yorkshire can now access full fibre services from Quickline Communications.

Having built its reputation as a billing provider for the telecoms industry, PRD Technologies has begun expanding into other sectors, and fibre remains firmly in its sights.

Virgin Media O2 has launched a residential 2Gbps broadband service, Gig2, and introduced symmetrical download and upload speeds across its speed tiers as an optional add-on.

Truespeed is adding TV and streaming services to its broadband offering through a partnership with Sky.

Boldyn Networks is bringing fibre connectivity to public buildings across the London boroughs of Wandsworth, Richmond upon Thames and Merton.

Connexin has secured £58.6m in government funding to roll out full fibre to 34,000 rural properties in Nottinghamshire and west Lincolnshire.

Five new Project Gigabit contracts have been awarded to CityFibre totalling over £394m of government subsidy.

Full fibre is now available to over 6 in 10 UK households according to the third annual State of Broadband Report by thinkbroadband.