County has been chosen as one of six areas to test the service
West Yorkshire has been revealed as one of just six places chosen to test out the fastest and most reliable broadband.
Fibre broadband is to be rolled out to businesses, schools and hospitals in a £200m pilot scheme.
The projects will get around £10 million to test full fibre networks that run straight to the doors of customers’ homes or businesses and is said to offer speeds of 1 gigabyte.
Karen Rukin of Kirklees Council said: “This is great news and a small project team is being established who will work with government to deliver this scheme locally.
“There is still work to do to shape how the scheme will operate exactly in West Yorkshire.”
Kirklees councillor Andrew Cooper, (Greens, Newsome), said: “It’s good that more communities are getting a better broadband service. As local councillors we will be dropping letters informing the householders affected to make sure they don’t lose out.”
Source: http://gearsofbiz.com/super-fast-fibre-broadband-coming-to-west-yorkshire-in-200m-pilot-scheme/73756