Mobile network operators are urging newly-elected local councillors to put digital policy and connectivity strategies high on their agenda as they start their new terms. “We congratulate all newly and re-elected councillors in England’s local elections and are encouraging every councillor to actively support our ongoing campaign to fund and roll out local Digital Champions”

The trade body has urged the government to do more to help its local councils ‘level up’

Extension comes five years after CityFibre first brought fibre infrastructure to the town