WORK has started to connect tens of thousands of people living and working in rural Cumbria to lightning-fast broadband thanks to more than £100million of government investment.
Around 60,000 premises in the county will be connected to the fastest broadband on the market after Belfast-based supplier Fibrus signed the biggest contract yet under the government’s Project Gigabit programme.
The £5billion Project Gigabit is described as the biggest broadband roll out in British history. It aims to deliver faster connections to hard-to-reach areas that would otherwise have missed out, such as Gilsland and Grasmere.
Installation work is already underway in the region, with the first gigabit connections expected by the spring.
“This is incredible news for the area and something which both locals and local MPs here have been calling for and today we’re actually…
