Run Fibre adds 600 properties to rural rollout

Wessex Internet’s fibre services have gone live across 20 villages and other rural areas in Dorset, Somerset, Hampshire and Wiltshire since January 2024.

The lower penetration rate of fibre in England’s coastal communities threatens to see these areas fall across various socio-economic metrics, find the Coastal Communities Alliance.

The Government’s trial to use Starlink as a solution for connecting hard-to-reach areas of the UK is a “time-consuming and unnecessary distraction”, according to David Hennell, Business Development Director at National Broadband.

Openreach is bringing fibre to residents in Mouswald, a Dumfriesshire internet black spot, through funding from the Reaching 100% (R100) Scottish Broadband Voucher Scheme (SBVS).