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Freedom Fibre has been awarded £43m to upgrade broadband infrastructure in rural Cheshire as part of the government’s Project Gigabit rollout.

Vorboss has been recognised for the third year in a row by the City of London Corporation as part of the Considerate Contractor Streetworks Scheme.

Yayzi Broadband is the latest retail brand to join Freedom Fibre’s full fibre network.

Quickline Communications has partnered with The Prince’s Trust to help get disadvantaged young people into employment.

Grain has connected the 30,000th customer to its network, which covers 50 UK towns and cities including Carlisle, Birmingham, Blackpool, Bolton, Bradford, Grimsby, Hartlepool, Hull, Liverpool, Manchester, Middlesbrough, Newcastle, North Shields, Oldham and Sunderland.

Cuckoo has signed a new three-year deal with bank payment company GoCardless and will use the fintech’s Direct Debit capabilities to collect monthly bills from customers.

Virgin Media O2 and Hubbub’s Time After Time fund has awarded £500,000 to projects which tackle electronic waste and support digital inclusion.

CityFibre has secured a Gold Achievement Award from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), by demonstrating that staff and build partners operate in a safe environment.

BT Group has revised its timetable for moving all customers off the PSTN and onto digital landlines following a two-year delay.

Through its partnerships with CityFibre and Openreach, Vodafone can now reach 15.3 million households with full fibre broadband.