Rollout

Around 5,000 premises in Dumfries and Galloway can now connect to full fibre through the Scottish Government’s £600m Reaching 100% programme.

Openreach’s network in Bristol now addresses 65% of the city’s premises, representing more than 145,000 homes and businesses.

More than 800 hard-to-reach premises across Barnard Castle, Middleton-in-Teesdale and Winston can now access GoFibre’s network as the altnet completes phase one of its Project Gigabit contract.

Quickline’s network is now available to a total of 1,800 new homes across the Lincolnshire communities of Goulceby, Martin, Timberland and Belton.

Boosting rural connectivity could add £65.1bn to the UK economy and increase employment by 6.8%, according to research from Cebr for VMO2.

Warminster is one of six new UK towns added to Lit Fibre’s rollout plans, which look to cover 500,000 UK homes by 2026, reports the Wiltshire Times.

Openreach has begun building a new fibre network in Woking, alongside delivery partner Circet.

MS3 has begun connecting residents in Mexborough, South Yorkshire to its new full fibre network.

G.Network is giving away £10,000 worth of advertising on Old Street Roundabout to its SME customers in Islington and Hackney.

Brsk recently gave BDUK representatives a tour of its network in Greater Manchester, which recently passed 157,000 homes and grew into neighbouring Cheshire.