Quickline Updates on South Yorkshire Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout

Rural UK ISP Quickline, which is busy building a new full fibre (FTTP) and fixed wireless (FWA) network across parts of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire (3-Year Rollout Plan), has issued a progress update on their publicly subsidised Project Gigabit broadband rollout contract for South Yorkshire that’s now covered almost 9,000 premises.

Just to recap. The provider holds four contracts under the Government’s £5bn Project Gigabit scheme, worth a total of c.£300m in public subsidy. One of those is the £44m regional contract for South Yorkshire (Lot 20), which originally aimed to extend full fibre to a further 32,100 additional premises in hard-to-reach areas (here).

Quickline’s update reveals that they’ve already delivered full fibre connectivity to almost 9,000 funded premises across areas including Westwoodside, Dinnington, Kiveton, Barnby Dunn, Crowle, Adwick, Conisbrough, Hoyland, Royston and Bramley.

The company states that they’ve also exceeded their second major contract milestone ahead of schedule. While the target was to reach 8,049 premises by end of March 2026, the provider achieved this in mid-February 2026, extending coverage to 8,840 premises by the end of March.

Take-up across the network is currently around 11%, with further growth expected as awareness increases and more communities come online. The figure may seem low, but Quickline haven’t been building LOT 20 for all that long and the pace of rollout will be going faster than customer take-up.

Carly Mellor, Leader of Quickline’s South Yorkshire Rollout, said:

“This is a significant milestone for our South Yorkshire rollout and a testament to the pace and quality of delivery from our teams on the ground.

Reaching more than 8,800 premises ahead of schedule means thousands more homes and businesses can now access the connectivity they need to thrive in an increasingly digital world.

But our work is about more than infrastructure. Through our social value programme, we are investing in skills, education and opportunity to ensure the communities we serve can fully benefit from the connectivity we are delivering.”

Quickline itself currently aims to extend gigabit-capable broadband to a further 360,000 UK premises across thousands of rural communities (roughly 170k via publicly funded projects and almost 200k from commercial builds). The provider previously reported that they ended 2025 with 200,000 premises passed via full fibre (plus 200k more via wireless, although not all of those are gigabit-capable).