4,500 homes in West Yorkshire and York can access full fibre and eventually 28,000 will be able to.
More than 4,500 rural homes and businesses in Yorkshire can now access the fastest, most reliable broadband available.
Telecoms minister Sir Chris Bryant said: "It's bringing the connectivity everybody really needs to live a modern life."Speaking at the Leeds Digital Festival on Wednesday, he added: "It will make a radical difference to people's businesses and people's lives, because you can just do so much more than you could when you had the circle of doom going round and you couldn't download even a movie properly.
Escrick, a village on the A19 between York and Selby, was where the first homes were connected to Quickline's full fibre service as part of the contract. A separate contract awarded to Quickline as part of Project Gigabit covers 32,000 rural properties in South Yorkshire.
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