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Openreach, the UK’s largest broadband infrastructure provider, is joining forces with Ladder for Greater Birmingham with the aim of supporting and promoting apprenticeships across the region.The local campaign, launched in 2018, aims to create thousa...

Nearly 30,000 more homes and businesses across Dorset and Somerset are set to benefit from a major broadband boost thanks to a £9m[1] investment by Openreach – the UK’s largest digital network provider, used by the likes of BT, Sky, TalkTalk, Vodafon...

More than 110,000 more homes and businesses across Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Kent and Oxfordshire are set to benefit from a major broadband boost thanks to a £33m[1] investment by Openreach – the UK’s largest digital network provider, used by the...

More than 100,000 more homes and businesses across Cambridgeshire are set to benefit from a major broadband boost thanks to a £30m[1] investment by Openreach – the UK’s largest digital network provider, used by the likes of BT, Sky, TalkTalk, Vodafon...

More than 195,000 more homes and businesses across Greater London are set to benefit from a major broadband boost thanks to a £58m[1] investment by Openreach – the UK’s largest digital network provider, used by the likes of BT, Sky, TalkTalk, Vodafon...

More than 170,000 more homes and businesses in the North East are set to benefit from a major broadband boost thanks to a £51m[1] investment by Openreach – the UK’s largest digital network provider, used by the likes of BT, Sky, TalkTalk, Vodafone an...

An engineer who worked around the clock to keep people connected in the wake of Storm Arwen has been named Openreach’s Engineer of the Year 2022.Luke Picken was nominated by colleagues for his efforts to restore broadband services across South West S...

More than 70,000 more homes and businesses in the West Midlands – mostly in the borough of Dudley - are set to benefit from a major broadband boost thanks to a £21m[1] investment by Openreach – the UK’s largest digital network provider, used by the l...

Berwick-upon-Tweed MP Anne-Marie Trevelyan has met with Openreach’s chief engineers to witness first-hand the innovative engineering techniques used to deliver ultrafast, ultra-reliable full fibre broadband across her constituency.She was given a tou...

Residents of Llantrisant and the surrounding area will soon become the latest to benefit from the ultrafast, ultra-reliable Full Fibre broadband that Openreach engineers are currently installing up and down the country . (Gweler fersiwn Cymraeg isod ...

Thousands of homes and businesses in Ely can order some of the fastest, most reliable broadband in Europe – and they’re being urged to ‘get connected’ to full fibre.The Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, Dr Nik Johnson, spent time with Openrea...

More than 38,000 homes and businesses in Lancashire are set to benefit from a major broadband boost thanks to an £11m[1] investment by Openreach – the UK’s largest digital network provider, used by the likes of BT, Sky, TalkTalk, Vodafone and Zen.Whe...

More than 60,000 more homes and businesses in Tyne and Wear are set to benefit from a major broadband boost thanks to a £18m[1] investment by Openreach – the UK’s largest digital network provider, used by the likes of BT, Sky, TalkTalk, Vodafone and ...

·       36 more rural and urban locations added to its build plan – covering 500k more premisesOpenreach has now built ultra-fast, ultra-reliable Full Fibre broadband to more than seven million homes and businesses across the UK, including more than ...

MSs from across Wales had the opportunity during a drop-in session at the Senedd in Cardiff Bay to talk with Openreach engineers and apprentices that are being tasked with building a Full Fibre ultrafast broadband network across the country. (Gweler ...

Our network in Staplehurst, Kent has been badly damaged by a suspected arson attempt.  Around 7,400 customers are affected - we'll update this statement as we know more.Pete Stewart, UK Operations Director for Openreach said, “There was a suspected a...

Openreach today announces the appointment of Natalie Ceeney as a non-executive member to its Board, replacing Liz Benison who will be stepping down on 30th April 2022. Liz joined the Openreach Board in March 2017 and has since then completed over fiv...

MSPs from around Scotland met engineers and apprentices from Openreach to discuss the roll out of full-fibre broadband and the economic benefits fast, reliable connectivity is bringing to Scotland’s economy during a drop-in session at the Scottish Pa...

Former Scotland rugby player Lewis Carmichael has joined Openreach Scotland’s engineering workforce after injury cut short his promising international career. Lewis, from Peebles, was forced to retire from professional rugby on medical advice at the ...

Record recruitment, full fibre broadband, and the importance of a diverse workforce were hot topics as Openreach formally joined the Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce (GBCC).Chamber chief executive Henrietta Brealey toured Openreach’s new Snowh...

South of Scotland MSP Craig Hoy visited Openreach sites in East Lothian this week to hear from apprentice engineers about how the area’s ultrafast broadband build is progressing. The visit marked Scottish Apprenticeship Week 2022, which runs from 7-1...

Superfast West Yorkshire & York, which has seen the five West Yorkshire councils,  City of York Council, and West Yorkshire Combined Authority, work closely with Openreach to make fibre-based broadband widely available across West Yorkshire, has anno...

In the space of just six days during February, the UK experienced three named storms. And to put that in perspective, there were just five such storms during the whole of 2021.Each storm brought damage and disruption to our network with severe gales ...

Openreach has  announced a number of local efforts to help raise awareness of the upcoming digital phone upgrade in Mildenhall, Suffolk.Mildenhall is one of the first areas in the country to switch to new digital phone lines, as the UK moves to retir...

More than 100,000 homes and businesses in South Yorkshire can now order faster, better broadband thanks to multi-million investment by Superfast South Yorkshire.           The partnership, between the four South Yorkshire local authorities, UK Govern...

News that St Ives in Cambridgeshire is next in line to benefit from Openreach’s full fibre broadband build is being welcomed by the Leader of Huntingdonshire District Council.Councillor Ryan Fuller met up with representatives from the UK’s largest br...

20% of engineers hired in 2021 were women, up from less than 5% in 2018/19Openreach today announced it will create and fill more than 4,000 jobs during 2022 – including around 3,000 apprenticeships – as it continues to invest billions of pounds into ...

Openreach today announced it will create and fill around 500 more Scottish jobs during 2022 – including around 390 apprenticeships – as it continues to invest billions of pounds into its UK broadband network, people and training.The new recruits will...

    Openreach today announced it will create and fill around 140 more North East jobs during 2022 – including around 70 apprenticeships – as it continues to invest billions of pounds into its UK broadband network, people and training.The new recruits...

Openreach today announced it will create and fill more than 250 more jobs in Yorkshire and the Humber during 2022 – including around 200 apprenticeships – as it continues to invest billions of pounds into its UK broadband network, people and training...