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Cebr figures about how the deployment of ultra-fast full-fibre broadband would benefit the UK as a whole Gary McDonald Business Editor Mairead Meyer, director of Openreach Northern Ireland THE deployment of ultrafast full-fibre broadband across the north would boost productivity in the region by more than £1 billion a year by 2025, enable tens of thousands more people to work from home, and remove as many as two million commuter trips a year, it has been claimed. An...

Confusion over eligibility for Project Stratum plans Premises on the same street are reporting inconsistencies in eligibility for the broadband scheme. Concerns have been raised over inconsistencies in the roll out of Project Stratum. Reporter: );  ); A council report seen by the County Derry Post has indicated over 300 premises initially eligible for a broadband upgrade scheme will not now be part of the roll-out. In January 2019, the Department for Economy (DfE) compiled a list of postcode...

BBC News Published The first Optical Line Termination in Coalisland, County Tyrone, is now live. Project Stratum aims to improve rural internet connectivity with 76,000 premises getting full-fibre broadband access. Economy Minister Diane Dodds told BBC News NI that she hoped that 19,000 people would get connected by the end of 2021. The Department for the Economy said a small number of premises had been connected in the initial phase. "Fibrus (the company awarded the contract) expects the first...

A PACKAGE of economic measures designed to help steer the north out of the depths of the Covid-19 crisis will require £290 million in the first year.

3,000 premises taken off broadband list The premises have been removed from a white postcode list set to benefit from Project Stratum. Reporter: );  ); Over 3,000 premises in Mid Ulster are among 18,000 removed from a list of properties eligible to avail of the government broadband improvement scheme, Project Stratum. As part of the planning process, Project Stratum identified a list of white postcodes, where there is no qualifying broadband infrastructure, to benefit from the project. A tot...

    The Minister has encouraged individuals and businesses to visit www.availability.hyperfastni.com where an address level postcode checker is available for people to check eligibility and when deployment is expected in their area.     Economy Minister Diane Dodds said, “I know when we announced that Fibrus Networks had been awarded the contract for Project Stratum many wanted to know where and when the investment would begin. “Fibrus Networks have now published their roll-out plan and...

Next steps in Government’s £5 billion gigabit broadband plan The government has today set out the next steps in its £5 billion strategy to deliver next generation, gigabit-capable broadband to the entire country. From: 22 December 2020 A consultation has been launched on the draft procurement strategy for the UK Gigabit Programme setting out plans to connect the first one million homes and businesses with gigabit speed broadband and maximise coverage in the hardest to reach 20% of the U...

More than half of Northern Ireland homes can now access gigabit-speed broadband, according to a new report. It means NI has the highest coverage of the faster, more reliable connection than any other nation, according to Ofcoms annual Connected Nations report. The watchdog analysed the availability of broadband and mobile services across the UK. Gigabit-capable broadband offers download speeds of up to 1 Gbit/s, much faster than the UKs current average broadband speed of 72 Mbit/s. More than h...