Rollout

KCOM has announced the first three winners of its Digital Inclusion Grants, aimed at improving lives in communities across Hull, East Yorkshire and north Lincolnshire.

LilaConnect will make its network live for more than 6,900 premises across Leek, as well as Etruria, Cliffe Vale and Shelton in Stoke-on-Trent over the next few months.

Full-fibre is now available to more than 17,000 additional homes and businesses in Rotherham following the completion of local works by Virgin Media.

Homes and businesses in the Abbey, Glebe, Minster, Castle, Carholme and Birchwood wards of Lincoln are now able to CityFibre’s network.

Openreach will invest a further £100m to connect more than 100,000 further homes and businesses to its full fibre footprint in Northern Ireland.

Virgin Media O2 has made full fibre broadband available to more than 13,000 additional homes and businesses in York.

CityFibre has now laid over a 250km of full fibre internet beneath the streets of Rugby, enough to stretch double the length of the Oxford Canal.       

More than 3,400 homes and businesses in the Eastern Villages of Stirling can now access fibre services following an eight-month programme led by Lothian Broadband Networks

Connect Fibre has named Rayleigh and Thundersley as the latest locations to join its full fibre broadband network.

Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council has published plans to build up to 50km of fibre infrastructure, to connect the areas not yet addressed by commercial fibre rollouts.