As part of the Government’s £5bn Project Gigabit initiative, properties in Cheshire, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Essex, Herefordshire, Gloucestershire, Lincolnshire, East Riding and North Yorkshire will be upgraded.
The 2019 Conservative manifesto promised the installation of full-fibre, gigabit-capable broadband in every home and business across the UK by 2025. This pledge was later downgraded to just 85 per cent of premises in the UK, with MPs questioning whether even this target was achievable considering the current speed of the roll-out.
The new roll-out has been positioned by DCMS as a way to accelerate the country’s recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic in the hope that it will provide a boost to high-growth sectors like tech and the creative industries.
It also could help people living in those areas to start and run businesses online or provide a boost to home workers, whose numbers increased massively in 2020.
The Government has already announced...