CityFibre, the UK’s largest independent full fibre platform, has reached agreement with its shareholders and existing lenders on a major £2.3bn financing round, accelerating its next phase of growth.
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Rural broadband provider Quickline Communications has today unveiled the full list of communities set to benefit from its full fibre rollout over the next three years, bringing fast and reliable, gigabit-capable connectivity to a further 360,000 premises across thousands of rural communities.
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News Openreach has begun delivering full fibre broadband to homes and in some of the hardest to...
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Almost 12,500 more homes and businesses in Cumbria can now benefit from Full Fibre broadband
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At Connected Britain 2024, we spoke with Openreach’s chief commercial officer, Katie Milligan, to discuss the company’s latest Project Gigabit contracts, sustainability progress, and how Sky’s new deal with CityFibre will affect competition in the retail market.
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Openreach’s newly appointed CEO, Clive Selley, has called on the UK government to reduce the regulatory barriers hindering broadband rollout. In a recent blog post, Selley highlighted that despite the Project Gigabit funding, which aims to extend gigabit-capable broadband to thousands more premises, nearly a million homes could miss out due to outdated planning rules.
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The UK government announced up to £800 million of funding to Openreach, to bring gigabit-capable broadband to 312,000 premises across the UK via Building Digital UK (BDUK). The initiative is part of ongoing efforts to improve digital infrastructure in rural areas.
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The Yorkshire and Lincolnshire-based altnet says the investment will allow them to expand their full fibre network to a further 190,000 homes and businesses
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A survey of 104 Conservative and Labour MPs found less than a quarter believes the UK will meet its targets for gigabit broadband and 5G rollouts
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Today, the UK government has released its Spring update for Project Gigabit, its £5 billion plan to upgrade digital connectivity in hard-to-reach areas across the country.
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News The contract is Wessex Internet’s third Project Gigabit award Wessex Internet has secured a...
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British incumbent BT has secured £26 million of government funding to provide hundreds of primary schools with gigabit broadband, as part of the UK government’s ‘Project Gigabit’ scheme.
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The UK government has awarded East Yorkshire-based ISP Quickline Communications £60 million in funding as part of the Government’s £5 billion Project Gigabit scheme. The contract covers the rollout of full fibre to over 28,000 rural homes and businesses, primarily in West Yorkshire but also reaching some communities in North Yorkshire and the East Riding of Yorkshire.
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News The five new contracts will help subsidise the rollout of full fibre broadband infrastructure...
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News The UK government has revealed that Scotland will receive a £450 million share of the £5...
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CityFibre have awarded contracts to build partners in Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Hampshire and Suffolk.
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News Procurement for Type C contracts launched on 27th July, with two contracts currently on...
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News The altnet aims to expand its fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) network to over 3,750...
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News The UK’s largest altnet has secured £318 million in government to rollout...
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Construction of a new full fibre broadband network is now underway in Teesdale to connect more than 4,000 hard-to-reach homes and businesses as part of the UK government’s Project Gigabit scheme.
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