South Yorkshire UK Finally Publishes BT “Fibre Broadband” Rollout Map

South Yorkshire (England) might have been late to the Broadband Delivery UK game, due to the infamous Digital Region disaster of prior years, but after last year’s signing of a contract with BT to upgrade the area we’re pleased to report that the project now has an official deployment map.

Under the £22.4 million deal, which was agreed during late September 2014 (here), BT will work to deploy FTTC/P based “fibre broadband” services to 97.9% of South Yorkshire (Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield) by the end of 2017. It’s worth noting that BT’s commercial roll-out in South Yorkshire has already reached around 250,000 premises.

This of course excludes the city centre areas of Sheffield because state aid rules say that public funding cannot be used there as the private sector should be able to do it, although sadly the big operators often drag their feet over such things.

In any case the project’s website can be found here – Superfast South Yorkshire – and you can also download the first high level deployment map (PDF). As usual it’s not as detailed as it could be, but it’s a fair start and better than some we’ve seen. Credits to one of our readers, Andrew, for pointing this out.