‘Ultrafast lane’ for broadband

THE FIRST homes and businesses in the Calder Valley town of Todmorden can now access ultrafast, ultra-reliable, full fibre broadband speeds.

Around 8,000 premises in Todmorden are already enjoying superfast, fibre broadband but thanks to the Superfast West Yorkshire and York (SFYW&Y) programme - a partnership led by the West Yorkshire Combined Authority and Openreach the first 250 homes and businesses can now access ‘full fibre’ broadband speeds of up to one gigabit per second (1000Mbps).

That’s more than 15 times faster than today’s average UK broadband speed.

As designated key workers, Openreach engineers have been hard at work throughout the Covid-19 lockdown, building the new digital network of the future that uses the latest Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband technology – where fibre optic cables are laid all the way from the exchange to people’s front doors.

Hundreds more properties across Calderdale are set to benefit from this next generation network over the coming weeks and months as Openreach engineers continue to work on both on the Superfast West Yorkshire & York rollout and their own commercial build.

Councillor Tim Swift, Deputy Chair of West Yorkshire Combined Authority and Leader of Calderdale Council, said: “We are delighted to be able to support this project in partnership with Openreach, meaning that thousands of homes and businesses in Todmorden will be able to enjoy faster, fibre broadband.

“At a time when more of us are at home than ever before, a fast and reliable broadband service is vitally important and depended on by many of our West Yorkshire communities.

“Enabling our residents and businesses to have access to faster broadband is key to levelling-up the region, and by supporting schemes such as the broadband programme, we will continue to build a stronger and growing economy.”

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