Quickline Extend East Yorkshire FTTP Broadband Cover by 8,500 Premises

Rural UK ISP Quickline, which is busy rolling out their new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across rural parts of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire in England (3-Year Rollout Plan), has revealed that their deployment in East Yorkshire has now covered around 8,500 premises in East Riding.

Just to recap. The provider has so far secured several Project Gigabit deployment contracts for the West Yorkshire and the York area (Lot 8), North Yorkshire (Lot 31) and East Riding of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire (Lot 23) under the Project Gigabit scheme (here, here and here). This reflects a total public investment of around £300m to help expand their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network into disadvantaged areas.

In today’s case, we’re talking about their £118.9m East Riding of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire (Lot 23) contract, which was announced back in July 2024 and aims to reach around 72,000 additional premises over the next few years. Quickline has now delivered gigabit-capable broadband to around 8,500 homes and businesses across the East Riding area, with a “portion enabled through Project Gigabit funding” (they don’t state the portion size, but we assume the rest is their commercial build).

In the North Cave area, to the west of Hull, more than 800 homes now have gigabit-capable connectivity, with Broomfleet, Ellerker, Newport and Hotham all live, along with parts of North Cave itself. In Holme-Upon-Spalding-Moor, over 1,100 homes and businesses can now connect to Quickline’s full fibre network and another 600 addresses are now being served in Patrington.

Earlier this summer, Gilberdyke, west of North Cave, went live, giving more than 1,350 homes and businesses access to gigabit speeds. The hamlet of Newport also benefited, with more than 700 addresses able to get connected and the rollout to the remaining 10 per cent of the village due soon.

Lauren Robson, Project Manager at Quickline, said:

“I’m thrilled to see such strong progress across the region. Some truly rural communities are now receiving service thanks to the Project Gigabit contract being delivered by Quickline, and it’s making a real difference.

Our outreach activity in these communities is a hugely important part of our mission, ensuring we not only provide the means for decent connectivity, we also help to educate and inform at the same time by engaging with different groups and organisations.

Our aim is simple – to lift people out of digital poverty by giving them the connectivity they deserve. I’m proud to be part of that, alongside the wider Quickline team.”

Over the next three years, Quickline’s rollout is aiming to extend gigabit-capable broadband to a further 360,000 premises across thousands of rural communities (roughly 170k via state aid projects and almost 200k from commercial builds). To date, the company has already invested more than £107m into rural areas. But before that the provider expects to end 2025 with a total of 200,000 premises passed.

Residential customers reached by their new full fibre network are typically charged from £22 per month on a 24-month term for 100Mbps (50Mbps upload) speeds with free installation, which goes up to £49 for their top 1000Mbps symmetric speed tier (you also get the first 8 months of service for free on their top tier).

UPDATE 7:52am

We’ve been told that more than half of the 8,500 stated above is via Project Gigabit.