Emtelle has deepened its strategic partnership with GoFibre following the altnet provider’s most recent Project Gigabit £105m contract win, bringing high speed full fibre connectivity to over 60,000 residents across the Scottish Borders, including Aberdeen City and Dundee.
The collaboration between Emtelle and GoFibre, both major employers in the region, will see Emtelle supply duct, sub-duct and fibre infrastructure for new full-fibre networks to enable FTTP speeds of up to 10Gbps.
The infrastructure will be supplied to GoFibre as part of its fourth Project Gigabit contract.
Homes and businesses to parts of Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire, Angus, Dundee, the Highlands, Moray and Perth and Kinross will be connected to full fibre by summer 2026.
Emtelle has partnered with GoFibre on its commercial network build, and to deliver previous contracts under Project Gigabit, which prioritise areas that are not commercially viable for broadband providers, including rural communities. Together GoFibre’s network now covers more than 120,000 premises across over 30 hard-to-reach areas in both Scotland and the north of England.
Emtelle and GoFibre also enhanced digital connectivity for 8,000 residents and businesses in Hawick.
As a major local employer, Emtelle played a key role by manufacturing and supplying the duct, sub-duct, and fibre needed to deliver full-fibre connectivity to the Scottish Borders town, supporting GoFibre’s regional rollout.
Gavin Faulds, Chief Commercial Officer at Emtelle Group said: “Through this partnership with GoFibre, we will provide our range of pre-connectorised blown fibre cable and ducted network solutions that not only create high-speed networks but also future-proof them. In the long term, we aim to continue our partnership with GoFibre and build the infrastructure that further transforms connectivity in both Scotland and the UK.”
Image (L-R): Gavin Faulds, Chief Commercial Officer at Emtelle Group and Neil Conaghan, Chief Executive Officer at GoFibre
