Project Gigabit

Gigaclear has been awarded a £16.6m Project Gigabit contract to address around 4,400 homes and businesses in rural east Gloucestershire.

Quickline has secured a £60m Project Gigabit contract to provide around 28,000 premises across the rural West Yorkshire and York area with access to full fibre broadband.

Government funding has enabled 1,006,800 homes and businesses to gain access to gigabit-capable networks since August 2012, according to new data. 

CityFibre has begun work to connect 45,000 hard to reach premises in Cambridgeshire as part of a £69m Project Gigabit contract.

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.

Wessex Internet has begun network construction in Martin and Whitsbury, to kick-start its government-funded contract across the New Forest.

Connect Fibre has been awarded £33m of government funding to bring full fibre to 17,000 local homes and businesses in rural Derbyshire including villages and hamlets in Eckington, Hulland Ward, Shirley and other areas.

BDUK has awarded Project Gigabit contracts in Oxfordshire and north east Staffordshire to Gigaclear and Connect Fibre respectively.

CityFibre has awarded its first round of contracts to build partners for delivery of its Project Gigabit rollouts in Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Hampshire and Suffolk, covering 715,000 rural properties.