Government urges rural communities to apply for gigabit-capable broadband scheme
The Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme can be used by homes and businesses in rural areas to subsidise the cost of adding ultrafast connectivity.
Almost 500,000 premises across the UK have been connected to gigabit-capable broadband in the last two years, the Government has said, as it urged people to take up subsidies on offer to get access to high-speed connections.
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) said it has already issued around 45,000 vouchers in the Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme, worth more than £90 million, to subsidise the cost of building faster broadband for homes and businesses.
The scheme is being targeted at rural, hard-to-reach areas that are not likely to be connected through the commercial rollout of gigabit networks in the near future.
