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Gigaclear’s 1Gb FTTP Broadband Covers 3,000 Gloucestershire Premises

Rural ISP Gigaclear has confirmed that their State Aid supported Fastershire Phase 2 roll-out of 1Gbps (1000Mbps+) capable Fibre-to-the-Premise (FTTP) broadband in Gloucestershire, which is focused upon the Cotswolds area, has now reached the half-way point with 3,000 premises passed.

The project, which is funded by £3 million of public investment from the Government’s Broadband Delivery UK programme and £7 million from Gigaclear itself, began its deployment phase at the end of 2015. At the last update in June 2016 they had covered 1,000 premises. Clearly the roll-out pace has improved and they’ve managed to add another 2,000 in a much shorter space of time.

The eventual target is to cover 6,495 premises (homes and businesses) by the end of 2017, which will focus upon locations such as Guiting Power, Cowley, Chedworth, Whelford, Bibury and Icomb among others