Quickline seals £44m-plus Project Gigabit contract

Quickline Communications has secured its second Project Gigabit contract worth more than £44m.

The deal will fund the rollout of a full fibre network to up to 32,100 premises across rural South Yorkshire along with homes and businesses in East Yorkshire, North Lincolnshire, and Nottinghamshire.

It comes just weeks after Quickline, which is backed by Northleaf Capital Partners, was awarded a £60m Project Gigabit contract covering 29,000 rural premises in West Yorkshire and parts of North and East Yorkshire.

The new contract will see the connection of outlying communities situated around Barnsley, Doncaster, Epworth, Goole, Maltby, Penistone, Rotherham, Sheffield and Worksop.

Quickline’s full fibre network will be built using advanced XGS-PON technology which can support speeds of up to 10Gbps.

Quickline will also deliver a social values programme seeing the creation of jobs, apprenticeships, training courses, work placements, workshops, mentoring.

Sean Royce, CEO at Quickline, said: “Our roots are in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire and as a broadband provider we have a strong regional focus.

"We employ people from Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, we deliver broadband to the people of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire and we want to play our part in the growth and economic development of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire."

Pictured above in the South Yorkshire village of Woodsetts are Quickline team members (l-r) Ashley Heidstra, Area Build Manager; Ryan Johnson, Cabling Operative; Sean Royce, CEO; Shaun Smith, Splicer Operative; and Lee Jackson, Area Build Manager.