Articles tagged with 'Robert Thorburn' | Openreach

The first 100 homes and businesses on the Hebridean isle of Jura can now order some of the fastest, more reliable broadband in the UK, made possible by joint voucher funding from the UK and Scottish governments.Openreach’s new full fibre network will...

Around 5,000 households and businesses in Dumfries and Galloway can now connect to better broadband speeds through the Scottish Government’s £600m Reaching 100% programme – and more are set to benefit from upgrades.Full fibre technology is now availa...

Around 2,500 households and businesses in South Ayrshire can now connect to better broadband speeds through the Scottish Government’s £600m Reaching 100% programme – and more are set to benefit from upgrades.Full fibre technology is now available to ...

Around  2,400 households and businesses in South Lanarkshire can now connect to better broadband speeds through the Scottish Government’s £600m Reaching 100% programme – and more are set to benefit from upgrades.Full fibre technology is now available...

Around 4,400 households and businesses in the Scottish Borders can now connect to better broadband speeds through the Scottish Government’s £600m Reaching 100% programme – and more are set to benefit from upgrades.Full fibre technology is now availab...

Around 1,400 households and businesses in Perth and Kinross can now connect to better broadband speeds through the Scottish Government’s £600m Reaching 100% programme – and more are set to benefit from upgrades.Full fibre technology is now available ...

Around 800 households and businesses in Orkney can now connect to better broadband speeds through the Scottish Government’s £600m Reaching 100% programme – and more are set to benefit from upgrades.Full fibre technology is now available to 40,000 of ...

Around 3,300 households and businesses in the Highlands can now connect to better broadband speeds through the Scottish Government’s £600m Reaching 100% programme – and more are set to benefit from upgrades.Full fibre technology is now available to 4...

Around 4,100 households and businesses in Fife can now connect to better broadband speeds through the Scottish Government’s £600m Reaching 100% programme – and more are set to benefit from upgrades.Full fibre technology is now available to 40,000 of ...

Around 3,000 households and businesses in Argyll and Bute can now connect to better broadband speeds through the Scottish Government’s £600m Reaching 100% programme.Full fibre technology is now available to 40,000 of Scotland’s hardest to connect pro...

Around 3,800 households and businesses in Aberdeenshire can now connect to better broadband speeds through the Scottish Government’s £600m Reaching 100% programme – and more are set to benefit from upgrades.Full fibre technology is now available to 4...

More than 110,000 homes and businesses across Aberdeen city and shire are among one million that can now access ultrafast broadband on Openreach’s Scottish network.The new full fibre services are now available to 70,000 city households and businesses...

Some of the fastest, most reliable broadband anywhere in the UK is heading to the island of Lismore, as work starts on a major digital upgrade through the Scottish Government’s £600m Reaching 100% (R100) programme.The once-in-a-generation, full fibre...

More than 2,100 homes and businesses in Lossiemouth now have access to ultrafast broadband – but just 15 per cent of those who could upgrade have made the move to the new, full fibre network.People living and working in the town and surrounding area ...

More than four in every five properties in South Queensferry can now order some of the fastest, most reliable broadband in Europe.Eighty five per cent of homes and businesses in the town and the surrounding area can access Openreach's ultrafast, ultr...

Residents in a Dumfriesshire internet black-spot now have access to ultrafast, full fibre broadband – thanks to new funding from the Reaching 100% (R100) Scottish Broadband Voucher Scheme (SBVS).The complex digital upgrade of 57 properties – which in...

Linlithgow and East Falkirk MP Martyn Day recently joined Openreach engineers to check on the local rollout of ultrafast broadband. The new, gigabit network now reaches nearly 50,000 properties across West Lothian and Falkirk, 20,000 of them in his c...

Mairi Gougeon MSP this week joined Openreach engineers in her constituency of Angus North and Mearns to check on the digital network’s rollout of ultrafast broadband.The MSP, who’s also Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and Islands, visited the vil...

Borders MP John Lamont met Openreach engineers this week to check on the latest rollout of ultrafast, ultra-reliable full fibre broadband across the area.He was given a tour of the work in Gala and an update on the Borders build, which has now reache...

Eight more Scottish locations – including Stirling, Kirkcaldy and Gourock – are set to benefit from a major broadband boost thanks to a £16.2 million[1] investment by Openreach, the UK’s largest digital network provider used by the likes of BT, Sky, ...

Openreach’s new, ultrafast, fibre broadband network has reached nearly 5,000 businesses and homes in Lanark, giving local people access to some of the fastest, most reliable broadband in the UK.The local build covers the town’s high street, more than...

A professional musician has gone from climbing the banks of Loch Lomond to find a mobile signal to streaming online shows from his garden studio – after ultrafast broadband arrived in Balmaha. Openreach installed a full fibre network in the picturesq...

More than 950,600 households and businesses across Scotland were reached by the £463 million Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband rollout, final data released today reveals.As the huge civil engineering programme was ‘piped out’ in Luss on the banks ...

Around 400,000 more Scottish homes and businesses are set to benefit from a broadband boost in the region of £160m[1] thanks to Openreach – the UK’s largest broadband network provider. People living and working in another 48 urban areas – including D...

Residents of a Cambuslang care home have been enjoying unlimited video calls with their families during the latest lockdown – thanks to a new ultrafast broadband connection from Openreach. Flemington Care Home, on the outskirts of Cambuslang, has bee...

Openreach today bucked the prevailing economic trend by creating at least 275 new Scotland-based engineering jobs to be filled during 2021, alongside more roles in its supply chain.The new Openreach roles in locations across the country will enable t...

After delivering 6,500km of fibre optic cable, and bringing superfast broadband to more than 290 Highlands and Islands communities, a £146m fibre broadband roll-out is making its final connections before handing over to the Scottish Government’s Reac...

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...

Openreach is asking residents in Ellon to get behind a bid to bring ultrafast, ultra-reliable full fibre broadband to even more local homes and businesses. The company has started work on the town’s new full fibre broadband network, with the first ho...

Openreach is asking residents in Buckie to get behind a bid to bring ultrafast, ultra-reliable full fibre broadband to even more local homes and businesses. The company will start to build the town’s new full fibre broadband network next year – and i...