MORE than 90,000 more homes and businesses in Yorkshire and the Humber are set to benefit from a major broadband boost as part of a £27m investment by Openreach – the UK’s largest digital network provider.

When work is finished, people living and working in more than 10 communities across North, South and West Yorkshire will be able to contact their broadband provider and upgrade to full fibre broadband, with the new network being built to the majority of premises in areas such as Addingham, Keighley and Steeton.

The network is used by the likes of BT, Sky, TalkTalk, Vodafone and Zen.

This is a further boost for the region as it follows several key announcements last year outlining plans that more than 650,000 homes and businesses would be getting access to Openreach’s new network, including tens of thousands in rural and harder to serve areas.

Robert Thorburn, Openreach’s regional director for the North, said: “Nobody in the UK is building full fibre faster, further or at a higher quality than Openreach. We’re reaching more communities than ever and our team of highly-skilled engineers, alongside our build partners, are working hard to deliver some of the fastest and most reliable broadband available anywhere in the world."