BT has secured a tender to provide fibre-optic broadband to North Yorkshire.

The contract is part of the governmental Broadband delivery UK (BDUK) programme which will see an investment of £17.8 million combined with £8.6 million from the European Regional Development Fund to deploy broadband to 90 percent of the UK by 2014.

The contract will see BT provide speeds up to 330Mbps. Carl Les, the deputy leader of North Yorkshire County Council and chairman of the Connecting North Yorkshire project said: “North Yorkshire is a large rural county with many remote premises,- “As a result, deploying broadband is a particular challenge.”