UK’s Project Gigabit: billions committed, but just 1.6% take-up at last count
Nearly four years in, government’s Project Gigabit spend reaches £2.2bn with latest Openreach contracts, but connections faltering at just 11,000 as commitments and subsidies yet to translate to boots on the ground. With another £400m in the procurement pipeline for 2025, when will cash finally convert to real impact? In depth non-chummy review of UK rural fibre programme inside…
This article includes:
- Geographic: England; Europe; Northern Ireland; Scotland; UK; Wales.
- Organisations: B4RN; Building Digital UK; CityFibre; Connect Fibre; Connexin; Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT); E-volve; Fibrus; Freedom Fibre; FullFibre; Gigaclear; Global Connectivity; GoFibre; INCA; Labour; Openreach; Quickline; TalkTalk; Tiger Infrastructure Partners; Trooli; Voneus; Wessex Internet; Wightfibre; Wildanet.
- People: Boris Johnson; Clive Selley; Keir Starmer; Peter Kyle.
- Themes: Broadband; Call-Off contracts; Fibre; Full-fibre; Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme; GigaHubs; Infrastructure; Plan for Change; Superfast; Wireless broadband.
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