UPDATE 1:35pm Added a comment from CB above. First Broadband plans to connect 50 villages in the east of England to its Hyperfast broadband network by Q2 2020 . It has already started work in Norfolk and Cambridgeshire , with the first customers expected to be connected by early 2019 . The news comes a year after it secured a £ 46 m ( $ 100 m ) investment from Aviva to develop its gigabit - capable fibre - to - the - premises network .
First Broadband plans to connect 50 villages in the east of England to its Hyperfast broadband network by Q2 2020 . It has already started work in Norfolk and Cambridgeshire , with the first customers expected to be connected by early 2019 . The news comes a year after it secured a £ 46 m ( $ 100 m ) investment from Aviva to develop its gigabit - capable fibre - to - the - premises network .