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Tuesday, Mar 18th, 2025 (12:02 am) - Score 0 across several regions – Lincolnshire and East Riding (Lot 23), South Yorkshire (Lot 20), West and parts of North Yorkshire (Lot 31) and Cambridgeshire (Lot 5). The tweaks change both the level of committed public funding and premises target. The reality is that such contracts are not static and their scope, as well as committed levels of public funding, can change over time for a number of different reasons (this is instructed by regular 'Open Market Reviews' of the UK deployment plans by network operators).
For example, commercial operators may expand or reduce their roll-out plans in the same region, which can reduce or grow the scope for public investment within those same contracted areas. NOTE: Project Gigabit aims to help extend 1Gbps capable (download) broadband networks to reach "nationwide" UK coverage (c. 99%) by around 2030 ( Project Gigabit aims to help extend 1Gbps capable (download) broadband networks to reach "nationwide" UK coverage (c.
99%) by around 2030 ( here ) – the UK is currently at about the 86% coverage mark today ( here ). The contracted operator could also find the deployment more expensive or even cheaper than previously envisaged, such as due to..
. Mark Jackson.
