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Nearly 17,000 North Lincolnshire homes have broadband after £7 million project

The Northern Lincolnshire Broadband (NLBB) project has passed the halfway mark with 16,835 homes and businesses able to connect to high-speed broadband across the region after a £7 million investment.

By the end of the project in June 2015 the multi-million pound initiative is projected to have made fibre optic broadband available to 31,000 properties, or 92% or North and North East Lincolnshire.

Areas that can already benefit from high-speed broadband as a result of the project are: Winterton, Winteringham, Scunthorpe (parts of Bottesford, Timberlands, Riddings, Frodingham, Crosby and Ashby), Epworth, Barton, Brigg, Broughton, Belton, Cleethorpes, East Halton, Grimsby, Immingham, Barrow, Great Coates, Messingham, Worlaby, North and South Killingholme, Ashby-cum-Fenby, Brigsley, Humberston, Scartho, Waltham and Laceby.

The programme builds on BT’s commercial investment of £2.5 billion to roll out fibre broadband to two-thirds of UK premises.

This investment has already brought fibre broadband to more than 73,500 homes and businesses in parts of Brigg, Scunthorpe, Grimsby, Scartho, Healing and Barton-upon-Humber.

Tom Keeney, BT’s regional director for Yorkshire and the Humber, said: “This is a great achievement. Delivering a project of this size is never easy, but our engineers have been working tirelessly to keep the overall project on track and on time – deploying fibre to on average 600 new premises every week.

“Fibre broadband will bring the digital world right to the doorsteps of homes and businesses across the county.

“Faster connectivity breaks down the barriers to doing business in the digital world like online trading, which helps to empower those small businesses to find new markets, sell new products, try new models and compete on an equal footing with larger businesses.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Clare Burnett .