27 February 2021
Includes premises in Ayrshire, Edinburgh, Falkirk, Fife, Stirlingshire, Greater Glasgow and Lothian.
More than 5,300 homes and businesses in Ayrshire, Edinburgh, Falkirk, Fife, Stirlingshire, Greater Glasgow and Lothian will get access to gigabit speeds thanks to the first £4.5 million to be awarded from the UK government’s nationwide gigabit programme.
These premises currently have slow speeds and were already due to benefit from superfast broadband through the Scottish Government’s Reaching 100 (R100) programme, which is scheduled to invest £83 million in central Scotland.
But now, thanks to an agreement between the UK and Scottish governments the properties will get gigabit-capable full fibre broadband built directly to their doorsteps.
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The UK government is likely to miss its revised target to provide 85 per cent of the country with full-fibre broadband by 2025, according to a report from the Public Accounts Committee, the parliamentary spending watchdog.
In a report released on 8 January, the committee said that the government’s failure to achieve this target will exacerbate digital inequality at a crucial time, as families with connectivity issues have to contend with the latest national lockdown.
The government’s 85 per cent target was revised down from the Conservative Party’s 2019 General Election pledge of 100 per cent last November in Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s spending review. Additionally, of the £5 billion earmarked for the rollout, only a quarter is budgeted to be spent by 2024.