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Superfast broadband reaches more than 28,000 premises in Merseyside

The Government’s nationwide rollout of superfast broadband has now reached more than two million homes and businesses.

As part of this, Merseyside Connected has delivered access to high speed fibre broadband to 28,631 premises across Merseyside.

The Government’s nationwide rollout is delivering superfast access - internet speeds greater than 24 Mbps - to those properties not covered by existing commercial networks and is on track to take superfast access to 95 per cent of the UK by 2017.

Building on commercial roll-out programmes, Merseyside Connected aims to reach 98% of Merseyside businesses and homes by the end of summer 2016.

BT is contributing £6 million towards the cost of the project, the Government’s Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) is contributing £5.46 million and a further £4.4 million is from the European Regional Development Fund.

Culture Secretary Sajid Javid said: “Today there are almost 29,000 more Merseyside homes and businesses with access to superfast broadband than there were two years ago as a result of this ambitious project.

“We want everyone in the UK to be able to enjoy the benefits of superfast broadband, that’s why we’ve begun work on reaching the last five per cent of communities not covered by existing plans.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Sophia Taha .