Tees Valley Announced as One of First Areas in Country to Benefit from Gigabit Broadband(1000mbps)

Fat_Dragon

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This is the governments Project Gigabit infrastructure programme.

Up to 130,000 homes and businesses in the local authority areas of County Durham, Darlington, Stockton, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland, Sunderland, Gateshead, South Tyneside,Tees Valley and part of Northumberland, will have new gigabit broadband built to them.

No announcement yet from Internet Service Providers on how much it will cost for the consumer.


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The point about cost to end user is interesting - hadn't considered that.

How would it work in practice? Government funds the infrastructure (and maintains?) but ISPs are free to set the prices?
 
Still can't even get fibre broadband through open reach in my part of Thornaby as our cabinet cant take it, even though I live in the middle of an estate and most of the rest of the estate can get it.

Good job (?) Comcast through Murphy's cabled all the streets so we can get Virgin, but we are excluded from all the cheap offers from other providers. MP suggested we formed our own consortium but that is very expensive unless you get lots of people to join you.
 
We can only get 76mb which is annoying because we have a Virgin box over the road and ironwork on the path outside our house and can see the road between the two has been dug up so should just need cables pulling, but we always show up as not available on virgin.

Annoyingly all the streets around us have Virgin but for some reason ours doesn’t. went from 300mb to 76 and pay about the same before cashback 😂

luckily cashback pushes prices down a lot
 
Trug said:
Why is it alright for the Tories to do it but not Labour.
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I think Labour's policy was to provide free Internet access to everyone.

This is somewhat different - nobody is getting it for free and areas like Tees Valley (where is that?) will get superfast access.
 
£5 billion announced but only £1.2 billion being made available upto 2024. Virgin Media have already released Gigacity areas and I believe that 1,000 Mbps will be available in for Teesside by the end of this year. Also Cityfibre are investing in Middlesbrough already Here. Great announcement but I would like to read the details about if this new and additional investment or is it a rehash of previous announcements.
The areas that need investment are the small towns and villages around the major conurbations in Teesside ( Stokesley, Great Aton, Sedgefield, etc). Also new or existing estates where there is no competition ( only BT or Virgin Media) this will drive motivation to speed up the roll out of faster speeds to help prevent churn.
 
I've just bought a new build in Durham and was very surprised to learn I could only get up to 70 Mb/s. I dont understand why builders aren't forced to future proof home and install fibre from the box to home, it's just going to cost even more to rectify in the future.
 
It's staggering how so many people on here turn positives into negatives.

Receive good news with humility and open mindedness, especially if it doesn't come from your favoured political party.
 
I’ve just switched to virgin from sky and gone from 11mbps to 630mbps. Not sure it needs to be any faster to be honest.
 
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