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CBI welcomes BT broadband expansion in Yorkshire

The CBI has welcomed BT´s announcement of an expansion of high-speed fibre broadband in Yorkshire and the Humber.

Hoyland and Horton Bank are the latest communities to be included in BT’s £2.5bn commercial roll-out of the technology in the UK. More than 18,000 businesses and households in the two towns will have access to the service.

The exchanges will be upgraded by the end of Spring 2014. And, fibre broadband will be made more widely available in areas which already have the high-speed technology or are due to receive it, benefiting more than 3,800 premises in nine locations across the region including Seacroft, Bingley, Brigg and Harehills.

Andrew Palmer, regional director of the CBI, Yorkshire and the Humber, said: “It’s great news that there have been further upgrades in this £2.5bn commercial programme. Fast, reliable broadband makes it easier for people to make the most of the internet and all the opportunities it brings, and will be a welcome boost for our businesses, reflecting positively on the wider regional economy.”

Across Yorkshire and Humber as a whole, fibre broadband is already available to more than one million premises and this figure is expected to have reached more than 1.4 million by the end of Spring next year.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Mark Lane .