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A 500-strong team of Openreach engineers, responsible for looking after telephone poles across the UK, have climbed more than 11.5 million metres during the past year – close to the equivalent of a round-trip from London to the North Pole. James B...

Openreach, the UK’s digital network business, is celebrating after being named one of the UK’s top ‘Superbrands’ - an accolade granted by The Academy of Chief Marketers and Superbrands UK as part of its annual Superbrands survey. The Superbrands s...

Openreach today welcomes news that two engineers who went beyond the call of duty during the Covid-19 lockdown have been recognised in the 2020 Queen’s Birthday Honours. Scott McPartlin camped out on the Inner Hebridean island of Coll to restore s...

A statement from our CEO on the tragic death of engineer Alun Owen ...

More households and businesses in the Scottish Borders can now upgrade to faster fibre broadband through the £463 million Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband (DSSB) rollout. Across Scottish Borders more than 38,200 homes and business can now conn...

More households and businesses in Dumfries and Galloway can now upgrade to faster fibre broadband through the £463 million Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband (DSSB) rollout. Across Dumfries and Galloway more than 58,600 homes and business can no...

More households and businesses in Perth and Kinross can now upgrade to faster fibre broadband through the £463 million Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband (DSSB) rollout. Across Perth and Kinross more than 44,200 homes and business can now connec...

More Stirlingshire households and businesses can now upgrade to faster fibre broadband through the £463 million Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband (DSSB) rollout. Across the area more than 17,800 homes and business can now connect to fibre broad...

More Argyll households and businesses can now upgrade to faster fibre broadband through the £463 million Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband (DSSB) rollout. Across Argyll and Bute around 35,000 homes and business can now connect to fibre broadban...

More households and businesses in Aberdeenshire can now upgrade to faster fibre broadband through the £463 million Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband (DSSB) rollout. Across Aberdeenshire almost 88,600 homes and business can now connect to fibre ...

Openreach, the UK’s digital network provider, has launched a nationwide ‘Community Connectors’ award programme to recognise people who’ve supported their neighbours during lockdown. The company is asking every MP in the UK to nominate an individual f...

Openreach, the UK’s digital network provider, has launched a nationwide ‘Community Connectors’ award programme to recognise people who’ve supported their neighbours during lockdown. The company is asking every MP in the UK to nominate an individual f...

Openreach, the UK’s digital network provider, has launched a nationwide ‘Community Connectors’ award programme to recognise people who’ve supported their neighbours during lockdown. The company is asking every MP in the UK to nominate an individual f...

Openreach, the UK’s digital network provider, has launched a nationwide ‘Community Connectors’ award programme to recognise people who’ve supported their neighbours during lockdown. The company is asking every MP in the North East, and the rest of th...

Openreach, the UK’s digital network provider, has launched a nationwide ‘Community Connectors’ award programme to recognise people who’ve supported their neighbours during lockdown. The company is asking every MP in the North West, and the rest of th...

Openreach, the UK’s digital network provider, has launched a nationwide ‘Community Connectors’ award programme to recognise people who’ve supported their neighbours during lockdown. The company is asking every MP in Wales and the rest of the UK to no...

Openreach, the UK’s digital network provider, has launched a nationwide ‘Community Connectors’ award programme to recognise people who’ve supported their neighbours during lockdown. The company is asking every MP in Yorkshire and the Humber, and the ...

Openreach, the UK’s digital network provider, has launched a nationwide ‘Community Connectors’ award programme to recognise people who’ve supported their neighbours during lockdown. The company is asking every MP in Scotland and the rest of the UK to...

Openreach, the UK’s digital network provider, has launched a nationwide ‘Community Connectors’ award programme to recognise people who’ve supported their neighbours during lockdown. The company is asking every MP in the UK to nominate an individual f...

Dumbartonshire digital media creator Turkey Red Media has been able to use newly improved, gigabit-capable broadband to help negotiate Covid-19 challenges. The company’s usual work is varied, from filming audience reactions in Edinburgh’s playhous...

Openreach’s most experienced engineers turn detectives to solve 18-month mystery that’s plagued the broadband connections of residents living in the rural village of Aberhosan near Machynlleth, Wales. (Fersiwn Cymraeg isod / Welsh version below) ...

If our experiences over recent months have taught us anything, it is that demand for online services is only going in one direction. It will therefore be welcome news to many that Northern Ireland’s (NI) largest digital infrastructure provider, Openr...

Openreach today announced a further 67 locations – in its Fibre Cities programme where it will be building its new, future-proof Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband technology, as part of a new tranche of build. Work will begin in March 2021. T...

People living and working in parts of Ely, Glinton and Helpston can now upgrade to some of the fastest, most reliable broadband connections available anywhere in the UK. The areas were announced (January 2020) as some of 22 East of England locatio...

Community comes together to get connected to next generation fibre network bringing access to some of the fastest broadband speeds in Europe (Gweler fersiwn Cymraeg isod / Welsh language version below) ...

Some of the last broadband connections to go live in the Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband (DSSB) programme have been unveiled on the outskirts of Kirkcolm in Dumfries and Galloway by Paul Wheelhouse MSP, Minster for Energy, Connectivity and the I...

Connecting to some of the fastest fibre broadband in the UK through a county council partnership is transforming day-to-day life for people living and working East Staffordshire, providing a timely boost during this Covid period. Residents of Duns...

High Peak MP Robert Largan has visited Openreach engineers who’re installing ultrafast broadband in some of the most rural and hard-to-reach parts of Derbyshire. The MP spent time in New Mills to witness first-hand the innovative engineering techn...

Intrepid engineer John McConnell dived straight in when residents on one of Scotland’s smallest inhabited islands were cut off from the outside world. Curious campers tugged up a subsea cable on the beach at Balmaha, Loch Lomond, leaving the two h...

First Merthyr Tydfil homes and businesses get connected to next generation fibre network bringing access to some of the fastest broadband speeds in Europe (gweler Cymraeg isod / Welsh version available below) ...