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"Digitally isolated" communities are to be connected to fast, reliable broadband, the UK government has said.
It has been working with the Scottish government to roll out improvements across Scotland.
The latest work involves about 65,000 properties, and the £157m contract with telecoms firm Openreach is the largest so far under the UK government's Project Gigabit.
Households and businesses in Skye, Islay, Tiree, Applecross, Durness are to be offered gigabit-capable broadband.
The UK government said the locations had some of the slowest broadband speeds.
