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A total of 16 market towns in the county could eventually receive the service.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Harrogate Borough Council is understood to have provided <strong>\u00a3300,000<\/strong> to help deliver extra coverage across the district, with Ripon being the first of their towns to benefit from that investment. Like most such networks, the service will only be deployed across busy town centres, rather than the entire town.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bq2\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> Much of the investment for this has come from the UK Government&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/08\/new-900m-getting-building-fund-brings-broadband-boost-to-england.html\">\u00a3900m Getting Building Fund<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p>The plan itself was first announced earlier this year as part of a wider scheme worth \u00a33m (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/02\/north-yorkshire-uk-prep-fibre-broadband-and-rural-wifi-boost.html\">here<\/a>), which has since seen the free <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/wifi\">WiFi<\/a> service go live in central areas of Scarborough, Northallerton and Leyburn. 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