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Half of Scottish homes and businesses can now get connected to ultrafast broadband from Openreach, which says the fibre rollout could generate £4 billion for the Scottish economy.
Openreach says it has spent more than £435 million on full fibre links for Scotland so far, with 1.45 million properties now able to upgrade and take-up at 38%, which is apparently ahead of the UK average.
Around 30% of the new fibre footprint is in rural areas, we’re told, and around 100,000 of the hardest to reach properties were upgraded alongside the Scottish Government and other public sector partners. Islanders in Tiree, Iona and Mull are among the latest to be hooked up.
