Superfast net rolls out to difficult-to-reach places

WORK has begun on bringing full fibre broadband to some of the most rural homes in North and Mid Wales. Openreach’s latest roll-out aims to connect up some of the ‘most hard-to-reach areas’ at the back of the queue for superfast internet.

- By ANDREW FORGRAVE Countryside and Tourism Editor

In the coming months, Openreach engineers will be visiting 16 communities in Gwynedd, Denbighshire and Powys to deliver ‘some of the fastest, most reliable broadband anywhere in Europe’.

The upgrades are part of Project Gigabit, a government-funded programme targeting homes and businesses that - because of their locations - might otherwise miss out on fast, reliable broadband. Up to £800m was made available to Openreach last year to benefit around 312,000 premises across the UK.

The company said the ‘once-in-a-generation’ upgrade will benefit hundreds of properties in the region.

Some are in communities that already have partial access to full fibre broadband such as Llangollen and Corwen.