GoFibre has connected more than 3,800 homes and businesses across north Northumberland, giving access to faster broadband in a major milestone for Project Gigabit, and helping to close the digital divide.
Project Gigabit
Quickline is seeing its full fibre rollout continue at pace with remote premises across the East Riding of Yorkshire receiving a major digital boost, and thousands of homes and businesses enjoying gigabit speeds for the first time.
GoFibre has completed a £125m funding round that will support its delivery of two Project Gigabit contracts in the south and north east of Scotland, bringing high speed connectivity to 130,000 premises.
More than 2,000 rural homes and businesses in North Yorkshire now have access to gigabit-capable broadband through progress on Quickline’s Project Gigabit contract.
GoFibre is progressing its Project Gigabit rollout in Durham-Teesdale with work in Witton-le-Wear, County Durham.
BDUK’s latest quarterly statistics report reveals how many premises have received a gigabit-capable broadband connection through the agency’s subsidy between 1st April 2024 and 31 December 2024.
Wildanet is celebrating a double-milestone in its £77m rollout of full fibre broadband in Cornwall as part of Project Gigabit, and has now connected a total of 10,000 premises in the first two phases across the south west and central parts of the region.
Neos Networks and Oxfordshire County Council have confirmed the completion of their Gigahubs project introducing 192 public service and local authority sites to new 1,500km long gigabit-capable full fibre broadband network, enhancing digital connectivity for residents.
Freedom Fibre is no longer able to complete a contract to roll out gigabit-capable broadband to 12,000 premises in north Shropshire in full, due to changes in the external market, in a new report from the government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) Agency.
More than 10,000 government-funded rural premises have been addressed by Quickline through its work on two Project Gigabit contracts; West Yorkshire and the York area (Lot 8) and South Yorkshire (Lot 20).