Expansion

Grain is giving residents of Bury a major broadband upgrade by expanding its full fibre network across the area, adding more homes to the rollout – with the first phase on track to go live in April.

Quickline is extending its Project Gigabit rollout, bringing full fibre broadband to an additional 6,000 rural homes and businesses across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, an expansion backed by an extra £11m in government funding.

Openreach is making full fibre available to more local Suffolk communities, with 210,000 homes and businesses now connected to broadband technology thanks to the company’s nationwide rollout.

PXC is to partner with Trooli to offer more reliable full-fibre broadband to rural areas of the UK, in a move that strengthens PXC’s market position and expands its network.

Openreach is continuing to rollout faster broadband, and more than 125,000 residents in Coventry can now connect to full fibre technology as its network expansion increases.

ITS has joined forces with DG Cities and the Royal Borough of Greenwich’s Innovation Company to help residents in Eltham benefit from faster connectivity thanks to the second phase of Digital Greenwich Connect - a joint venture that will deliver an additional 7km of fibre across the town centre.

Gigaclear has started to connect 9,500 more Oxfordshire homes and businesses under Project Gigabit, in the second contract with total subsidy of £25.4m for the altnet provider to expand its network, covering areas across the north and south of the county.

FullFibre has formed a strategic partnership with VeloxServ, in a collaboration that will significantly expand the connectivity options available to businesses across 11 counties and up to 160 towns served by the FullFibre network.

Gigabit IQ is to form a strategic partnership with F&W Networks expanding its broadband services to more areas, providing F&W’s infrastructure through an additional partner.

toob is rolling out its full fibre service to residents across a total of seven more counties in the UK, as part of its strategic partnership with CityFibre.