More than 30,000 businesses and homes in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire could soon have faster broadband as fibre build gathers pace.
In November 2018, it was announced that Gedling was the first place to be included in Openreach’s local full fibre build.
Now, work is also underway in Sherwood, West Bridgford and Wollaton, as engineers install the cables and infrastructure required to connect up those areas.
The news has been welcomed by the County Council.
Councillor Kay Cutts, leader of Nottinghamshire County Council, said: “I understand the importance of maintaining and improving the county’s infrastructure.
“For the past eight years, Nottinghamshire has led the way in ensuring the availability of full and partial fibre-based broadband.
"We have outpaced not only our neighbours across the East Midlands, but authorities across the country as a whole – offering the second-best broadband speeds outside of London and better availability than Birmingham, Leeds, and Manchester.
“I am proud to support Openreach as they expand their Fibre First operation deeper across the county.
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"Today, more than 10 percent of Nottinghamshire has full-fibre.
"It is a testament of our excellent public-private partnership – coupled with the Council’s ‘open for business’ collaborative approach – that more than 98 percent of our county now receives superfast services.
"This provides excellent foundations on which to build.”
The build is part of Openreach’s plans to make Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) technology available to four million homes and businesses across the 海角视频 by the end of March 2021.
The business wants to reach 15 million and ultimately the majority of the 海角视频 if the conditions are right to invest.
Kasam Hussain, Openreach’s regional partnership director in the Midlands, said: "Recent research shows that connecting everyone in the region to ‘full fibre’ broadband would create a £3.5 billion boost to the local economy, by unlocking smarter ways of working, better public services and greater opportunities for the next-generation of home-grown businesses.
“We are making great progress here in the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire area as our full fibre build gathers pace.
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"It’s just over 12 months since we first announced the city as one of our fibre build areas, and I’m sure people living here have already seen an increase in our engineer activity as they construct the network.
"We’re going as quickly as we can and look forward to going even further in the future.”
People interested in upgrading their broadband can see what’s available in their area by entering their postcode into Openreach’s online fibre checker.
If your area is shown as ‘accepting orders’ you can order fibre broadband.
You will need to contact a broadband provider offering a full fibre service on our network to do it.