Project Gigabit: Wildanet pulls out of contracts amidst rising rollout costs
Wildanet calls off two of its Project Gigabit contracts in Cornwall as delivery costs increase “significantly beyond anticipated”, becoming the latest altnet to withdraw from the government-subsided rollout scheme…
This article includes:
- Organisations: Building Digital UK (BDUK); CityFibre; Connect Fibre; Department of Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT); Fibrus; Freedom Fibre; FullFibre; Gigaclear; GoFibre; Gresham House; Openreach; Quickline; Searchlight Capital Partners; Truespeed; UK Infrastructure Bank (UKIB); Wessex Internet; Wildanet.
- Geographies: Europe; United Kingdom (UK).
- People: Neil Conaghan; Andy Nash; Helen Wylde-Archibald.
- Themes: Altnets; Broadband; Broadband rollout; Connectivity; Contracts; Cost pressures; Fibre (FTTP); Fibre infrastructure; Funding rounds; Government subsidies; Infrastructure; Infrastructure investment; Investment; Rural broadband; Rural connectivity; Sustainability.
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