Articles tagged with 'North East of England' | Openreach

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 today outlined plans to make ultra-reliable and gigabit-capable full fibre broadband available to homes and businesses in and around nine market towns and villages across the North East. The new locations - Blyth, Morpeth, Alnwick, Houghton...

Openreach today outlined plans to make ultrafast, ultra-reliable and future-proof broadband available in Crook and Howden-le-Wear.It’s part of a bigger announcement involving 227[1] ‘harder to reach’ areas across the UK, with building to start in the...

Family with eight children living in the one millionth home passed awarded free full fibre broadband for a year Build in 12 further locations to begin during the next 12 months, taking the total to 38 Engineers have already installed around 2.6 milli...

More than 70 trainee engineers will be hired across the North East, as part of a huge recruitment drive announced (Monday 28 January 2019) by Openreach.

Amber Rudd opens new training centre for engineers in Peterborough and welcomes 3,000 new apprentice engineers, highlighting the number of women now moving into the sector 11 additional build locations revealed as Openreach accelerates its full fibre...

Openreach is stocking up on thousands of snow shoes, salt and screenwash to make sure millions of people stay connected in the event of severe weather this winter.

31,000 employees move from BT Group into Openreach Limited. Final major milestone in creating a more independent, legally separate business. BT’s ‘Northern Ireland Networks’ engineering division rebranded ‘Openreach Northern Ireland’. Openreach, the ...

Openreach has chosen two of the world’s leading communications technology companies, Huawei and Nokia, to help deliver its national rollout of Fibre-To-The-Premises (FTTP) technology – which will reach three million British homes and businesses acros...

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...

Homes and businesses in Eastgate village have been upgraded to ultrafast, fibre broadband, thanks to the multi-million pound Digital Durham programme.

Staff at a 200 year old mill in a remote corner of Northumberland are no longer on tenterhooks waiting for their broadband connection since upgrading to superfast.

More than half of the Northumberland homes and businesses included in the first phase of the iNorthumberland broadband roll-out are already signed up to a superfast broadband service, according to latest figures....

Thousands more South Tyneside homes and businesses can now access high-speed, fibre-based broadband as a direct result of South Tyneside Council’s investment into the multi million pound Digital Durham programme. ...

 The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rt Hon Philip Hammond MP, today welcomed news that Openreach, Britain’s leading digital network business, will hire 3,500 new trainee engineers over the next 12 months. The largest recruitment drive in the company’s ...

Around 40 trainee engineers will be hired across the North East as part of a recruitment drive by Openreach.

The North East 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. ...

County Durham was praised today for playing a leading role in Great Britain achieving the target of 95 per cent superfast broadband coverage.

North Tyneside was praised today for playing a leading role in Great Britain achieving the target of 95 per cent superfast broadband coverage.

Middlesbrough was praised today for playing a leading role in Great Britain achieving the target of 95 per cent superfast broadband coverage.

Nearly 3,000 new homes and flats across major new housing developments in Tyne and Wear will be able to get some of the fastest broadband speeds in the UK following a deal between Openreach and housing developers. ...

Hundreds of homes and businesses in Sunderland and South Tyneside are set to get access to broadband speeds up to 30 times faster than the UK average*, thanks to Openreach, Britain’s digital network business....

Latest ultrafast technology – known as Gfast - now available to thousands of Newcastle upon Tyne residents

Whorlton is the latest Teesdale community to be upgraded to high-speed fibre broadband thanks to the multi-million pound Digital Durham programme.

Openreach to provide Ultrafast broadband to around 2,400 new homes across Northumberland

A free event to help Northumberland businesses get to grips with broadband will be held next month by iNorthumberland.