Ultrafast Full Fibre 
Fibre First 
Fibre for home 
Fibre for business 
Community Fibre Partnerships 
Retiring the copper network 
Industry 
Questions about fibre availability 
Damage, health and safety 
Developers 
Crimes and scams 
When to contact us 
Obtaining wayleaves 
Our leadership and governance 
Our performance 
Who we are 
2021
28
May
2021
|
01:15
Europe/Amsterdam
Openreach today outlined plans to build ultrafast, ultra-reliable Full Fibre broadband to at least three million more homes and businesses – including 440,000 in the South West - in some of the UK’s hardest to serve communities[1]. It means fewer ho...
Read more
28
May
2021
|
01:15
Europe/Amsterdam
Openreach today outlined plans to build ultrafast, ultra-reliable Full Fibre broadband to at least three million more homes and businesses – including 360,000 in the South East - in some of the UK’s hardest to serve communities[1]. It means fewer ho...
Read more
13
May
2021
|
09:46
Europe/Amsterdam
Statement from Openreach in response to BT Group PLC Full Year Results to March 2021 (07:00am, Thursday 13 May)Clive Selley, CEO, Openreach said:“We’re proud that BT Group is increasing its ambition for Openreach.“We’ve already proven that we can bui...
Read more
12
May
2021
|
15:48
Europe/Amsterdam
Damage to broadband cabinets, telephone poles and overhead wires across the UK can now be reported to Openreach using precise locations from what3words.What3words grids the whole Earth into three metre squares, with each square given unique words to ...
Read more
28
April
2021
|
09:00
Europe/Amsterdam
Businesses in the UK are being asked to consider the implications of a nationwide project which will see millions of phone lines upgraded from analogue technology to new digital-based services. The company behind the upgrades, Openreach, is launching...
Read more
28
April
2021
|
01:01
Europe/Amsterdam
Openreach’s Regional Partnership Director for the South East, Kieran Wines, today welcomed the findings of a report conducted by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr) which shows that a comprehensive Full Fibre network in the South Ea...
Read more
2020
14
December
2020
|
10:00
Europe/Amsterdam
Openreach is asking residents in three Craven communities to get behind a bid to bring ultrafast, ultra-reliable full fibre broadband to their homes and businesses. The company is urging local people in Settle, Farnhill and Broughton to consider pool...
Read more
10
December
2020
|
11:50
Europe/Amsterdam
Neil Parish, MP for Tiverton and Honiton has visited Cullompton to meet engineers who are working to install ultrafast, ultra-reliable Full Fibre broadband in the town.Mr Parish was greeted by Openreach CEO, Clive Selley; he then viewed new equipment...
Read more
08
December
2020
|
11:52
Europe/Amsterdam
Openreach is asking residents in Beaminster to get behind a bid to bring ultrafast, ultra-reliable full fibre broadband to even more local homes and businesses.The company is planning Beaminster’s new, full fibre broadband network and is urging resid...
Read more
01
December
2020
|
17:15
Europe/Amsterdam
Openreach is asking residents in Willington to get behind a bid to bring ultrafast, ultra-reliable full fibre broadband to local homes and businesses. The company is planning Willington’s new full fibre broadband network and is urging local residents...
Read more
24
November
2020
|
11:00
Europe/Amsterdam
Openreach is asking residents in Aviemore to get behind a bid to bring ultrafast, ultra-reliable full fibre broadband to even more local homes and businesses. The company has begun preliminary work on Aviemore’s new full fibre broadband network, with...
Read more
10
November
2020
|
12:00
Europe/Amsterdam
Openreach today announced that around 35,000 homes and businesses in Northumberland, Newcastle and North Tyneside can now access some of the fastest, most reliable broadband anywhere in the UK.As designated key workers, Openreach engineers have been ...
Read more
15
September
2020
|
09:00
Europe/Amsterdam
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...
Read more
24
August
2020
|
11:00
Europe/Amsterdam
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...
Read more
09
July
2020
|
09:00
Europe/Amsterdam
Openreach and Connecting Devon and Somerset (CDS) have today announced that Openreach will bring its ultra-fast, ultra-reliable full fibre broadband infrastructure to more than 2,000 premises as part of CDS’s new Fibre Extension Programme.CDS is re-i...
Read more
12
June
2020
|
01:01
Europe/Amsterdam
Openreach CEO, Clive Selley, today joined MP John Glen to urge homes and businesses to switch to a new ultrafast and ultra-reliable broadband network - as Salisbury celebrates becoming the first entire city in the UK to gain access to Openreach’s new...
Read more
19
May
2020
|
11:00
Europe/Amsterdam
Glasgow engineer Scott McPartlin has been nicknamed Openreach’s Bear Grylls after CAMPING on the island of Coll to keep remote customers connected during lockdown.
The Openreach engineer headed over to the Inner Hebridean island after a lightning ...
Read more
13
May
2020
|
17:42
Europe/Amsterdam
The world has gone digital.
Whether it’s our TV, radio, photos or music; our texts, mobile phones and video chats. They’re all digital. And now, the landline is going digital too.
The UK’s traditional telephone network has been serving us well ...
Read more
27
January
2020
|
03:00
Europe/Amsterdam
Openreach today outlined plans to make ultrafast, ultra-reliable and future-proof broadband available in 63 market towns and villages across the South East of England.It’s part of a bigger announcement involving 227[1] ‘harder to reach’ areas across ...
Read more
2019
24
December
2019
|
15:01
Europe/Amsterdam
Lessons learned from dealing with extreme conditions during recent years has seen the UK’s largest telephone and broadband network invest in huge amounts of winter weather equipment so its engineers can remain on the road.So far, the seasonal shoppin...
Read more
24
December
2019
|
14:57
Europe/Amsterdam
Lessons learned from dealing with extreme conditions during recent years has seen the UK’s largest telephone and broadband network invest in huge amounts of winter weather equipment so its engineers can remain on the road.So far, the seasonal shoppin...
Read more
13
November
2019
|
17:00
Europe/Amsterdam
This year’s Salisbury Lantern & Lights Procession will be held on 12 December thanks to support from new sponsor, Openreach, which is partnering with Salisbury BID and Salisbury City Council to bring the festive event to the city once again this year...
Read more
2018
16
July
2018
|
17:28
Europe/Amsterdam
More than 720 additional homes and businesses in Carnoustie are now able to connect to high-speed fibre broadband thanks to the £428M Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband programme....
Read more
25
June
2018
|
09:13
Europe/Amsterdam
Builds upon existing 46 locations around Britain where cutting edge technology is already enabling trouble-free homeworking, multiple HD video streaming and instant file downloads Upgrade will future-proof homes and businesses for next generation te...
Read more
04
June
2018
|
14:56
Europe/Amsterdam
An historic Somerset village is set to get some of the fastest broadband speeds in the UK as a result of a partnership between local residents and Openreach....
Read more
19
April
2018
|
12:47
Europe/Amsterdam
Openreach today announced it was stepping up its search for trainee engineers in Bournemouth and the surrounding area, including Poole....
Read more
15
March
2018
|
00:05
Europe/Amsterdam
• Edinburgh, Aberdeenshire, Highlands & Islands, Argyll & Bute, Dumfries & Galloway and Perth & Kinross among the locations to benefit • 3,500 new engineers across the UK will help deliver ultrafast Fibre to the Premises broadband to three million pr...
Read more
12
March
2018
|
10:08
Europe/Amsterdam
The South West is expected to get a multi-million pound boost from an initiative which sees local communities forming partnerships with Openreach to bring high-speed fibre broadband to rural homes and businesses....
Read more
2017
30
November
2017
|
09:55
Europe/Amsterdam
A small village in the heart of rural Wales has become the first community in the world to be connected up to ultrafast fibre broadband thanks to an aerial drone....
Read more
31
October
2017
|
07:03
Europe/Amsterdam
Communications Providers have welcomed the ambition of Openreach, Britain’s digital network business, to build a large-scale Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across the country....
Read more
