Openreach boost for homes and businesses in Carnoustie and Monifieth by August

dailyrecord.co.uk:

Carnoustie and Monifieth are set to get a broadband boost after a £16.2m investment by Openreach. They are among eight locations in central and eastern Scotland that will see improvements by the summer.

The company announced another 54,000 homes and businesses are included in the latest full fibre upgrade. The new network to be built to the majority of premises in Stirling and Bridge of Allan; Kirkcaldy, Dysart and North Glenrothes in Fife; Carnoustie and Monifieth in Angus; and Gourock in Inverclyde.This follows plans announced last year for nearly a million more Scottish homes and businesses to be given access to Openreach's new gigabit-capable network, including 300,000 in rural and harder-to-serve areas.The build has now passed more than 530,000 properties across Scotland, including 20,000 business premises, in places like Aviemore, Aberdeen and Ardrossan.Openreach's partnership director for Scotland Robert Thorburn said: "We're reaching more communities than ever and our highly-skilled engineers, alongside our build partners, are working hard to deliver some of the fastest and most reliable broadband available anywhere in Europe."In 2021 our engineers built around 770 metres of new broadband cables every minute - making ultrafast broadband available to another home every 13 seconds." **Don't miss the latest headlines from around Dundee and Tayside.

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