{"id":4288,"date":"2025-02-04T10:51:18","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T10:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=4288"},"modified":"2026-02-17T22:46:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:46:14","slug":"sir-john-whittingdale-mp-meets-with-minister-for-data-and-telecoms-to-discuss-gigabit-broadband-coverage-in-maldon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=4288","title":{"rendered":"Gigabit Broadband in Maldon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sir John Whittingdale MP recently met Minister for Data and Telecoms, Sir Chris Bryant MP, to discuss progress in achieving universal coverage of Gigabit Broadband across the Maldon constituency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under Project Gigabit, Openreach has agreed a \u00a361.3 million contract to deliver fast reliable broadband to an additional 27,200 premises in North East England and Essex. Build has begun and the programme will last five years. Approximately 2,300 premises in the Maldon constituency are set to benefit including ones in Bradwell, Tillingham, Asheldham, Althorne, Mayland, and East Hanningfield. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sir John said: \u201cHaving had Ministerial responsibility for Project Gigabit under the last Government, I am delighted that availability of Gigabit broadband has increased from 6 per cent in 2019 to nearly 70 per cent today. This new contract will extend this further, benefitting some of the hardest-to-reach premises in villages in the Dengie Peninsula and elsewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sir John is pictured with Sir Chris Bryant MP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/thumbnail_Project-Gigabit-4th-February-2025-828x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4289\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcomed progress on Gigabit broadband rollout in Maldon, with thousands of homes set to benefit from faster connectivity under Project Gigabit, particularly in rural and hard-to-reach communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4289,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-westminster-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4288"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5389,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288\/revisions\/5389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}