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Kim Mears, MD Strategic Infrastructure Development talks about her ambitions to deliver full-fibre broadband to the UK and the benefits of a more gender balanced workforce.

We want to play the leading role in helping the Government to achieve its target of a fully fibred UK by 2033. And as the Chief Strategy Officer at Openreach, my mission, and that of my team, is to define the future direction of the business, and therefore help turn the Government target into reality.

Openreach are running open days at our training schools in Livingston, Peterborough and Bradford on Sunday 23 June 2019 for International Women in Engineering Day.

Openreach engineers connecting full-fibre to new social housing in Pembrokeshire

We now intend to reach an extra one million premises within our original timeframe, meaning four million homes and businesses will have access to a full fibre to the premises (FTTP) service over our network by the end of March 2021.

Free broadband for millionth home connected to full fibre

Faster broadband for the South and Mid Wales Cave Rescue Team’s depot in Penwyllt could save lives.

Kevin Murphy, MD Fibre and Network Delivery, talks about Openreach making full fibre available to over one million premises.

Lothian MSP Miles Briggs joins Openreach engineers in Edinburgh to see how fibre broadband could revolutionise e-healthcare

John Swinney shadows Openreach engineers to see how high speed broadband is being rolled out locally in Scotland.