According to Openreach, red tape is preventing upgrades to apartment buildings and flats, potentially leaving 600,000 homes and businesses across London without access to faster broadband technology for many years.
CityFibre has connected the first Project Gigabit customers in its Hampshire rollout, thanks to £104m funding, which will help more than 75,000 homes and businesses across the area to get online with faster broadband.
Openreach has helped more than 30,000 homes and businesses in Wakefield connect to high-speed broadband technology, following completion of full fibre rollout in the area.
The latest figures from the National Farmers’ Union reveals that farmers are being left behind because of the high cost of installing full fibre broadband in rural areas, according to a story on the BBC.
CityFibre has completed the primary-build of its full fibre network in Dundee, connecting over 58,000 homes to faster broadband.
Elevate has been awarded a contract to build a hyperfast full fibre network for St Helens Borough Council, as part of the council’s Digital Infrastructure Programme to increase internet speeds and reliability for residents and businesses in the Merseyside town.
Openreach has called for easier broadband upgrades to give tenants in flats and apartments the legal right to request better internet access in the same way they can request pets, to prevent a new digital divide.
Openreach has started work connecting the first 3,000 homes and businesses to its new ultrafast broadband network in Peacehaven, giving residents a full fibre upgrade.
Adtran has helped Openreach to pass 8.6 million premises using its open and disaggregated SDX optical line terminal (OLT) platform, highlighting the role of Adtran’s technology in enabling high-speed broadband expansion across the UK.
CityFibre has completed the primary-build of its full fibre network in Aberdeen, now 'ready for service’ to over 105,000 homes - around 97% of the city’s homes and most businesses.