The £18.8m Superfast Leicestershire project in central England has announced the next batch of 38 Phase Two communities that can expect to benefit from the state aid supported roll-out of BT’s “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network, which is anticipated to reach 96% of local homes and businesses by March 2016.
So far the project has already helped more than 10,000 extra premises (local homes and businesses) to be put within reach of the operators FTTC/P network and the eventual goal is to push this coverage out to help 62,000 (i.e. this reflects areas that wouldn’t ordinarily have expected to benefit as part of the separate commercial deployments from BT or Virgin Media).
Apparently premises in the Phase 2 areas (listed below) can expected to go live between Winter 2014 and Winter 2015.
Leicestershire Phase Two Rollout Areas
Blaby District
Stoney Stanton
Additional parts of Blaby, Braunstone, Countesthorpe, Croft, Enderby, Narborough and Whetstone
Charnwood Borough
Barkby
Parts of Birstall
Additional parts of East Goscote and Syston
Harborough District
Ashby Parva, Bringhurst, Dunton Bassett, Frolesworth, Great Easton and Tur Langton
Most of Fleckney, Great Glen and Ullesthorpe
Additional parts of Scraptfoft
Hinckley and Bosworth Borough
Barlestone, Dadlington, Higham on the Hill and Stanton under Bardon,
Most of Markfield and Stoke Golding
Parts of Market Bosworth
Additional parts of Hinckley
Melton Borough
Most of Bottesford
North West Leicestershire District
Belton, Coleorton Thornton and Worthington
Parts of Thringstone
Additional parts of Castle Donington and Coalville
Overall BTOpenreach has so far deployed more than 120 kilometres of fibre optic cable and installed more than 50 new roadside fibre broadband street cabinets. Leicestershire has also been provisionally allocated another £4.04m from the Government’s Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) office to improve superfast broadband (24Mbps+) availability and a plan for how this might be spent is still being constructed.
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