BT has been awarded a £26m Project Gigabit contract to connect over 650 primary schools in hard-to-reach places across England with gigabit broadband.
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Connect Fibre has been awarded £33m of government funding to bring full fibre to 17,000 local homes and businesses in rural Derbyshire including villages and hamlets in Eckington, Hulland Ward, Shirley and other areas.
This is Connect Fibre’s second collaboration with Project Gigabit. The altnet will start imminently to survey properties, with groundwork expected to start mid-2024 and the first premises expected to be connected in 2025.
CEO, Stefan Stanislawski, said: “Our commitment to connecting rural communities doesn’t stop at providing broadband, but extends into empowering homes and businesses with everything they need to thrive in today’s digital world.”
Councillor Carolyn Renwick, Derbyshire County Council’s Cabinet Member for Infrastructure and Environment, added: “This £33m investment by Government will increase speed and reliability in the network for these communities which is critical to levelling up these hard-to-reach communities, particularly in rural areas of our county, where commercial funding alone is insufficient to secure the money necessary to make this build happen.”
