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KCOM has been busy expanding across the East Riding of Yorkshire but lack of retailer choice often gets mentioned, a new pilot from the operator may reduce that concern.

Back in April Openreach said they had built FTTP to 530,000 premises and three weeks later our tracking is showing a footprint of 530,986 premises passed.

The number of premises passed by CityFibre with its FTTP roll-out has reached 506,143 premises.

Openreach is to invest £100 million to pass 100,000 more premises with FTTP in Northern Ireland and take on another 100 apprentices.

The last month set a new record for the amount of Openreach FTTP found and added to our records and the Fibre First programme has broken the 2 million premises passed mark.

With the direction of regulation now certain Openreach is tweaking the pricing of its GEA-FTTP and SOGEA services as it works towards scaling up to go from 4.5 million to 20 million FTTP premises in the next 7 years.

The Openreach full fibre roll-out is the fastest of the full fibre roll-outs in the UK and Peebles is just one small part of the much larger roll-out.

The goal was to build 4.5 million premises with FTTP available to them by the end of March 2021 and Openreach has declared that it has reached that figure.

Our tracking of the Openreach FTTP roll-out in the last month has almost set a new record for the amount found in a month. If February was not the shortest month of the year we would have set a new record.

The vast majority of the FTTP roll-out happening today in Northern Ireland is commercial and in the towns and cities, so a community project bring FTTP to some slow locations is fairly unusual.