A £100 million expansion and overhaul of KCom’s network has been unveiled as it launches its full fibre future.
Plans to deliver for generations to come have been released a decade on from the first leap of faith in broadband development. The Hull-based provider is investing huge sums into the city, wider Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, to give the region what it claims will be the “fastest, future-proofed and most accessible full fibre broadband network in the UK”.
The investment - at a scale surpassing the last financial year’s reported turnover - includes £62 million to expand its award-winning network to more than 50,000 further homes and businesses in 14 initial towns and villages across the region; £10 million to upgrade 14,000 properties in East Yorkshire currently without full fibre, £17 million to replace the ageing copper phone lines in Hull with an entirely new fibre network - changing over some 170,000 customers - and a £10 million long-term upgrade of the existing fibre network to enable download speeds of 10Gbps. It follows an initial £100 million expansion through the pandemic to expand outside of Hull.
