The government's £10 million Innovation Fund is providing a series of investments in eight new pilot broadband projects that aim to bring improved levels of connectivity to many parts of the country.

Aimed at providing improved levels of service in the five per cent of locales not covered under present plans for broadband rollout in the UK, these new pilot schemes saw the completion of feasibility studies in the last quarter of 2015 and are now ready to be put into action.

A DCMS statement read: "The results of these pilots and other work being undertaken by the major suppliers will help inform proposals for further investment to extend superfast broadband."

It added that the work now being completed will cover those areas where the economic case for broadband investment has been the weakest to date.

Overall, the pilots will now look to determine the total level of investment that would be required to achieve 100 per cent broadband coverage for the UK by the end of the decade.

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