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Scotland hits the million milestone

passedbeforeour commercial programme is complete. “In addition to the direct benefits of fiber for Scottish businesses, the deployment is good news for our supply chain, with Emtelle being a great example of a local company that’s thriving [through] its support of this enormous undertaking.” Scotland’s fiber optic broadband is expected to cover 85 percent of the country by the end of 2015, and 95 percent by the end of 2017.

Over one million homes and businesses in Scotland have access to superfast broadband. As part of the £2.5 billion UK rollout, OpenReach engineers have laid down around 1,850km of fiber optic cables, and installed 3,500 new cabinets. BT Scotland director Brendan Dick, visiting Hawick-basedcompany Emtelle, producers of 29millionmeters of cable duct for BT, said: “Today marks a high point in Scotland’s development as one of Europe’s leading nations for high speed communications. Scotland’s fiber infrastructure is growing rapidly, with another 400,000 premises to be

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