Millions of homes and businesses to benefit from government broadband upgrade

Just over two million homes and businesses are set to benefit from the fastest broadband speeds on the market thanks to a £5 billion government plan to level up internet access across the UK.

‘Project Gigabit’ will upgrade digital infrastructure in hard-to-reach areas with the aim to:

• Accelerate the country’s recovery from Covid
• Fire up high-growth sectors such as tech and the creative industries
• Put an end to families battling for bandwidth
• Bring the speed and reliability people need to start and run businesses.

Up to 1,850,000 additional premises across 26 English counties, including Yorkshire, Staffordshire and Kent, will get access to gigabit speed internet of 1,000 megabits per second – enough to download a HD movie in less than 30 seconds and lay the foundations for next-generation tech such as 8K-quality video streaming.

Digital Secretary Oliver Dowden, said, “Project Gigabit is our national mission to level up rural areas by giving them the fastest internet speeds on the market.

“Millions more rural homes and businesses will now be lifted out of the digital slow lane thanks to our mammoth £5 billion investment and one the quickest rollouts in Europe.

“This broadband revolution will create jobs, power up businesses and allow everyone to access vital services at lightning fast speed, helping us build back better from the pandemic.”

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