Nine new locations on the Isle of Wight are set to benefit from a broadband boost, as part of a £13.5m investment by Openreach.
It's estimated the upgrade will give around 45,000 more Island homes and businesses access to Full Fibre broadband, on the Openreach network.
When work is finished, the company is promising the majority of people living and working in Ventnor, Ryde, Sandown, Freshwater, Newport, Shanklin, Bembridge, Wootton Bridge and Niton will be able to contact their broadband provider for an upgrade.
This adds to the work already done by the firm in Cowes, where nearly 50 per cent of homes and businesses can already upgrade.
Connie Dixon, Openreach’s regional director for the South East, said:
“Nobody in the UK is building Full Fibre faster, further or at a higher quality than Openreach. We’re passing more than 50,000 new homes and businesses every week and installing around 800 metres of cable every minute, with our teams of highly skilled engineers working alongside our build partners to deliver some of the fastest and most reliable broadband available anywhere in the world.
“We’ve already reached eight million homes and businesses across the UK with ultrafast Full Fibre technology including more than more than 800,000 across the region, but we know there’s more to do and we’re committed to doing it.”
More than 800,000 homes and businesses in the region can already access Full Fibre on the Openreach network, with tens of thousands more to be built in the region before 2026.
Openreach is the UK’s largest digital network provider, used by the likes of BT, Sky, TalkTalk, Vodafone and Zen.
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