More than 60,000 rural homes and businesses across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire can now order gigabit-capable broadband from Quickline. The properties have been reached through Project Gigabit, which uses public money to extend faster broadband into places commercial rollouts aren’t expected to cover on their own.
The latest areas include villages and rural communities surrounding York, Bradford, Hull, Huddersfield, Barnsley, Boston and Wisbech. Sessay and Linton-on-Ouse in Yorkshire, Winterton in North Lincolnshire and Fosdyke in Lincolnshire are among the places named by the government.
For the people living there, this can mean considerably more than a larger number on a speed test. A proper Full Fibre connection should make video calls, streaming and working from home far less dependent on who else is using the broadband. It also replaces ageing copper lines that can become particularly troublesome over the long distances involved in serving rural properties.
Image Credit: Sessay Parish Council
The picturesque village of Sessay in Yorkshire is one of the locations about to receive Full Fibre
Being passed by Full Fibre doesn’t connect you automatically
The 60,000 figure describes homes and businesses that can access the new network, rather than 60,000 active Quickline broadband accounts. If your property is included, you’ll still need to check availability, choose a package and arrange the switch. Quickline also warns that appearing within one of its listed rollout areas doesn’t guarantee service at every individual address.
Quickline has received £127 million through Project Gigabit for the work completed so far. Its entire Full Fibre network now passes around 260,000 properties across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, including homes reached through its own commercial building programme as well as those supported by the government.
The rollout is continuing, with further villages, hamlets and isolated properties being added each week. Quickline publishes a detailed build timetable showing when work is expected to begin and when services should become available in individual civil parishes. Those dates can change, but the list is considerably more useful than a broad announcement covering several counties.
