UK’s Project Gigabit: billions committed, but just 1.6% take-up at last count

Joseph Purnell2025-01-07T13:07:00

Source: Openreach

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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