Full Fibre broadband for developers

If your area isn’t covered yet, register your site with us to let us know you’d like us to build fibre to your development.

We’ll do this for free for sites with 20 or more premises. If you have 1–19 premises on your site we’ll ask you to contribute towards this.  Find out more on our registration page. 

Eligibility for rate card subject to survey.

Full Fibre is the default infrastructure choice for all new build sites. Any plots connecting to copper infrastructure instead of Full Fibre will be charged at a flat rate of £2,500 per plot.

For commercial only sites of 20 or more units we’ll install Full Fibre for free.

For single commercial plots, or sites of 2-19 units we'll work with you to offer a bespoke network solution, and we'll contribute an amount per unit towards the cost of the build. The table below outlines the Openreach plot contribution and developer site cost.  We'll be able to give you more details after you register your site with us.

The developer portal currently provides developers with all the information about their new developments from site registration through to completion of the network build.

The useful resources section of the portal includes more information on the features of the portal.

BT Group has announced its plans to ‘switch off’ the traditional analogue (PSTN) Copper network by 31st January 2027. Between now and then, Openreach will move tranches of exchanges into a ‘stop sell’ position when 75% of addresses in an exchange area can get Full Fibre broadband (also known as Fibre to the Premises or FTTP). This allows us to stop selling WLR and PSTN products to CPs at those addresses.

For new sites we want to ensure that we only build one infrastructure which is Full Fibre. We want to remove the dependency on providing small amounts of Copper solely for the purpose of special service lines and from 15 November 2021 Openreach New Sites no longer offers additional Copper for the sole purpose of service lines. The full details are available in this briefing.

In addition, Openreach are working with Developers, Vendors and Water Companies to complete live trials of FTTP connections to Sewage Pump Stations and will shortly fully brief the outcome of these trials and share the technical requirements involved for other manufacturers and CPs to follow for their own respective solutions.

Full Fibre is the default infrastructure choice for all new build sites. Any plots connecting to copper infrastructure instead of Full Fibre will be charged at a flat rate of £2,500 per plot.

Openreach has worked through live trials with KONE, one of the global leaders in the lift and escalator industry, Avire - manufacturer of the ‘Memcom’ which is one of the UK’s leading universal lift emergency auto-diallers and CPs to test and demonstrate a working lift line over FTTP for both a digital and analogue lift application. Read the Case Study to find out more.

Openreach has been working collaboratively with Barratt and David Wilson Homes - the UKs largest Housebuilder, and Pump Supplies - one of the UKs leading Sewage Pump Suppliers to conduct the UKs first live publicised trial of connecting a Fibre circuit to serve Sewage Pump Station (SPS) technologies in an external outdoor environment. Read the case study to find out more.