The government is investing £45m to boost school infrastructure, including £25m to upgrade wireless networks in 2025 – helping get classrooms online and raising standards, in the latest phase of funding that has so far improved connectivity for more than 1.3 million pupils in 3,700 schools.
Wed, 11/03/2020 - 14:46
CityFibre has named 36 additional locations that will form part of its up-to-£4bn Gigabit City Investment Programme, targeting up to 8 million premises.
CityFibre also accelerated the mobilisation of its network build capabilities with a process underway to award £1.5bn in construction contracts by the summer and network build brought forward in the majority of these towns and cities by the end of the year.
Among the locations announced are large cities such as Glasgow, Nottingham and Wolverhampton, as well as smaller towns including Solihull, Crawley and Barnsley.
The announcement follows news that TalkTalk has committed to join CityFibre's network to market both consumer and business services.
They will join Vodafone and over 1,500 business and public sector ISPs as customers on the growing network.
Most recently, mobile operator Three has committed to leverage CityFibre's growing network to support its nationwide rollout of 5G services, further accelerating CityFibre's network deployment plans.
Greg Mesch, CEO at CityFibre, said: "Britain's need for a world-class digital infrastructure has never been greater which is why we stand firmly behind the Government's plan for nationwide coverage by 2025.
"Full fibre will play a critical role in levelling-up the UK and so today we are accelerating our plans, bringing full fibre to more towns and cities, even faster."
