NYnet, which was formed in March 2007 as a public sector controlled private limited company, has finally completed its high-speed broadband internet roll out for North Yorkshire County Council (NYCC) on schedule and within budget.

The £42.4m 10 year contract connects 550 schools, care centres, libraries and council offices in the region. As a result of the connection, council sites can now receive core broadband speeds up to 60 times faster than previously available, with 35% more bandwidth, at no additional cost.

The council awarded its entire Wide Area Network (WAN) broadband contract to NYnet Ltd in 2008, which is not surprising since NYnet is in part a collaboration between Yorkshire Forward and North Yorkshire County Council with funding from the European Union (EU).


NYnet now provides high-speed broadband connections to nearly 80% of public sector services in the county including offices, schools, libraries, and 15 Fire Service sites across North Yorkshire. Many North Yorkshire schools had previously suffered from a very slow and unreliable broadband connection which meant that teachers were unable or reluctant to use online resources.

However it's not just public services that have seen the benefits. We recently reported that Fibrestream's strategic partnership (NextGenUs) had worked with NYnet to bring symmetric speeds of 10Mbps to residents in the rural villages of Newton and Stape (two adjoining parishes in deeply rural North Yorkshire) - HERE.