Leicestershire UK Confirm Next Phase 2 Areas for “Fibre Broadband” Rollout

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.