GoFibre Connect 500 Customers to FTTP Broadband in Barnard Castle

Edinburgh-based UK ISP GoFibre has revealed that their roll-out of a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network in the County Durham market town of Barnard Castle, which forms part of their £6.6m state-aid supported Project Gigabit contract to cover 4,000 hard-to-reach premises in rural Teesdale (here), has now connected over 500 customers.

The local network expansion, supported by the UK Government’s LOT 4.01 contract, aims to provide high-speed internet to hard-to-reach areas in Teesdale, including Barnard Castle, Middleton-in-Teesdale, and surrounding villages. Overall the operator has, so far, managed to expand their full fibre network to cover over 120,000 premises (RFS) across over 30 “local areas” in Scotland and the North of England.

The local build currently covers Barnard Castle, Middleton-in-Teesdale and West Auckland, and includes towns and villages such as Cotherstone, Ovington, Gainford, Eggleston, Romaldkirk, Mickleton, Stainton, Barnard Castle and Witton-le-Wear. There are currently over 6,600 premises now ready for connection in the Durham-Teesdale area alone.