{"id":45449,"date":"2026-04-14T09:32:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T08:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=45449"},"modified":"2026-04-14T09:32:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T08:32:31","slug":"openreach-take-on-uk-project-gigabit-broadband-contract-for-north-shropshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/openreach-take-on-uk-project-gigabit-broadband-contract-for-north-shropshire.html","title":{"rendered":"Openreach Take on UK Project Gigabit Broadband Contract for North Shropshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Government\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/bduk\" target=\"_blank\">Building Digital UK<\/a> (BDUK) agency has issued a second announcement today to confirm that the previously stalled Project Gigabit broadband roll-out contract for North Shropshire (Lot 25.02), which was originally held by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/freedomfibre\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Freedom Fibre<\/a> until they \u201c<em>mutually agreed to descope the remaining 8,500 premises<\/em>\u201d in June 2025 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/06\/freedom-fibre-scales-back-north-shropshire-project-gigabit-broadband-contract.html\">here<\/a>), has also been taken on by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/openreach\" target=\"_blank\">Openreach<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Just to recap. The contract was originally valued at <strong>\u00a324m<\/strong> (public subsidy) and aimed to extend gigabit-capable broadband connectivity to cover around 12,000 premises in hard-to-reach areas. But in June 2025 the operator, which had been under some financial strain, revealed that they\u2019d already completed the build to 2,500 premises and would now only be able to reach 1,000 more (i.e. leaving the remaining 8,500 premises stuck in limbo).<\/p>\n<div class=\"bq2\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong>&nbsp;Project Gigabit aims to help extend gigabit broadband (1000Mbps+) ISP networks to \u201c<em>nationwide<\/em>\u201d coverage (c.99% of UK premises) by 2032, focusing mostly on the final 10-20% in hard-to-reach areas. Some 90% of premises can already access such a network (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/02\/milestone-as-gigabit-broadband-coverage-reaches-90-percent-of-uk.html\">here<\/a>) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a> forecast this could reach up to 97% by January 2028 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/11\/ofcom-predict-97-percent-of-uk-covered-by-gigabit-broadband-in-jan-2028.html\">here<\/a>).<\/div>\n<p>At the time BDUK said they were \u201c<em>moving swiftly to put in place alternative plans with other suppliers to connect premises that were due to be covered by this contract<\/em>\u201d. At the same time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/freedomfibre\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Freedom Fibre<\/a> said they were &#8220;<em>supporting this transition and &#8230; working collaboratively to make existing infrastructure available, where feasible, to help accelerate future delivery<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fast-forward to today and the good news is that BDUK have now agreed a contract change with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/openreach\" target=\"_blank\">Openreach<\/a> to include these premises within their existing <strong>Call-Off 3<\/strong> contract under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/08\/openreach-to-win-uk-project-gigabit-broadband-contracts-and-help-312k-premises.html\"><strong>Single Supplier Framework<\/strong><\/a> agreement&nbsp;\u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/08\/gov-boost-value-of-openreachs-uk-project-gigabit-broadband-framework-by-400m.html\">now valued at c.\u00a31.2bn<\/a>, which is focused on <strong>Cross-Regional (Type C)<\/strong> procurements (no other suppliers currently tackle Type C).<\/p>\n<p>Type C typically reflects remote areas where no or no appropriate market interest has previously been expressed before to BDUK, or areas that have been descoped or terminated from a prior procurement. Such areas are often skipped due to being too expensive (difficult) for smaller suppliers to tackle. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/openreach\" target=\"_blank\">Openreach<\/a> have already taken on deployments for other contracts that fell into similar difficulties with different altnets (examples <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/10\/bduk-switch-gigabit-broadband-contract-for-mid-west-shropshire-to-openreach.html\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/02\/openreach-takes-on-project-gigabit-broadband-contract-for-cheshire-uk.html\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/openreach-takes-on-project-gigabit-broadband-contract-for-derbyshire-peak-district.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/openreach-take-on-uk-project-gigabit-broadband-contract-for-west-herefordshire.html\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing there\u2019s currently no detail on whether there will be any changes to the original deployment plan or scope for Lot 25.02 as a result of this change. The BDUK statement simply says: \u201c<em>In April 2026 BDUK agreed a contract change with Openreach to include premises in this area within the existing Project Gigabit contract (call-off three) which covers other parts of Shropshire<\/em>.\u201d This is the second such announcement today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government\u2019s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has issued a second announcement today to confirm that the previously stalled Project Gigabit broadband roll-out contract for North Shropshire (Lot 25.02), which was originally held by Freedom Fibre until they \u201cmutually agreed to descope the remaining 8,500 premises\u201d in June 2025 (here), has also been taken on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[471,2717,56,69,38,1997,459],"class_list":["post-45449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-bduk","tag-freedom-fibre","tag-fttp","tag-bt-openreach","tag-politics","tag-uk-gigabit-programme","tag-shropshire"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@ispreview\/116402136906982358","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - 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