Homes and Businesses in Cloughton will be among sixty-nine thousand across Yorkshire and the Humber to receive a major broadband boost as Openreach announces a £24m investment in it's network.
Openreach is the UK’s largest digital network provider, used by more than 660 service providers including the likes of BT, Sky, TalkTalk, Vodafone and Zen.
People living and working in six communities across North Yorkshire, the East Riding and Northern Lincolnshire are due to be upgraded following the company’s latest build announcement, with a new, ultrafast, ultra-reliable ‘full fibre’ broadband network being built to most premises in Cloughton, Grimsby, Leyburn, Patrington, Scunthorpe and Tollerton.
The company says it now reaches more than 6 million homes and businesses across the UK with Ultrafast Full Fibre, with more than 440,000 of them in Yorkshire and the Humber.
The plans follow news earlier this year that around 625,000 homes and businesses would be getting access to Openreach’s new network, including tens of thousands in rural and harder to serve areas.
Robert Thorburn, Openreach’s regional director for the North, said:
“Good connectivity is vital – whether it’s to work from home, access education and care services, or for gaming and streaming entertainment – and that’s why we’re investing billions across the UK to upgrade our network to 25 million premises.
“Nobody’s building faster, further or to a higher standard than Openreach, and we’ve already reached six million homes and businesses with ultrafast full fibre technology, including more than 440,000 in Yorkshire and the Humber. It’s proving popular as well, with tens of thousands already choosing to start using it.
“Our engineers and build partners are reaching more communities every week and we’re not just building in cities and urban areas. Many rural and hard to reach communities are already benefiting and we plan to reach many more in the coming months and years.”
Across the UK, 1.3 million homes and businesses have already ordered a full fibre service from a range of retail service providers using the Openreach network. But this means 4.7 million more are yet to start benefiting from some of the fastest, most reliable broadband connections in the world and have yet to upgrade.
Recent research by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr) highlighted the clear economic benefits of connecting everyone in Yorkshire and the Humber to full fibre. It estimated this would create a £3.8 billion boost to the local economy.
Openreach says it's engineers have been working hard to make the technology available to as many people as possible throughout the UK and work will continue between now and 2026, with the full list of locations and timescales being updated regularly on the Openreach website.
The company says it's plans are fundamental to the UK Government achieving its target of delivering ‘gigabit capable’ broadband to 85 per cent of UK by 2025. The company plans to reach a total of 25 million premises by the end of December 2026, including more than six million in the hardest-to-serve parts of the country defined by industry regulator Ofcom.
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