Openreach sets out plan to provide 227 rural communities with full fibre broadband by next year
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Beaminster in Dorset, Clitheroe in Lancashire and the cathedral city of Ely in Cambridgeshire are among the first of more than 200 British market towns and villages in line to receive an ultrafast full fibre broadband connection within the next 14 months, the Telegraph can reveal.
Openreach, the BT-owned operator of Britain’s biggest broadband Internet network, will this week set out details of 227 rural communities which will be among the first to receive cutting edge full fibre connections under a new investment programme.
The announcement forms part of Openreach’s plan to extend full fibre broadband to the British countryside as well as urban areas, which are cheaper and easier to supply because of the greater density of population and shorter distances involved….