£1.7 million fibre broadband boost for Beccles
Costessey (Norfolk) and Horsham St Faith (Suffolk) also included in latest Openreach announcement
Beccles, a town steeped in history, is ready to embrace the future as it joins more than 2,800 UK communities in having access to Openreach’s Full Fibre broadband network.
The once-in-a-generation, Full Fibre broadband upgrade will let thousands of local people connect an army of devices at gigabit-capable speeds, whilst safe in the knowledge they have broadband capacity for decades to come.
Beccles is one of 19 new locations being announced today for a major ultrafast broadband upgrade. Around 5,700 homes and businesses in the town are expected to benefit.
Elsewhere in East Anglia, 9,500 in Costessey and 3,700 in Horsham St Faith are also included.
Full Fibre broadband provides more reliable, resilient and future-proof connectivity; with fewer faults; more predictable, consistent speeds and enough capacity to easily meet growing data demands.
Kieran Wines, Openreach Partnership Director for the East, said: “Nobody in the UK is building full fibre faster, further or at a higher quality than Openreach. We’re reaching more communities than ever and our team of highly-skilled engineers, alongside our build partners, are working hard to deliver some of the fastest and most reliable broadband available.
“The latest details and timescales will be available on our website as the build planning progresses.”
More than 3,500 Openreach people live and work in the East of England. This team supports a huge effort to maintain and build the UK’s largest phone and broadband network.
Openreach recently passed more than 11.5 million premises across the UK, including around 3.7m million in the hardest to serve ‘final third’ of the country.
And while we continue to build at pace – we already have more than 3 million homes and businesses that have taken up an ultrafast service over the Openreach network – a healthy take up rate of more than 30 per cent.
Ultimately the company plans to build Full Fibre to 25 million homes and businesses nationwide by December 2026.
For the most personalised view of an individual home or business, Openreach recommends using its online postcode checker where people can find out the specific broadband connectivity available at their address.
