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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. And the report from the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr) also says that it could enco...

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 postcodes containing premises eligible for development under the £165 million improvement scheme, known a...

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 1,000 premises in the area to be released for customer orders at the end of March/early April, with...

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 total of 3,023 premises in Mid Ulster, that were originally on the list of 'white' postcodes, hav...