Articles tagged with 'Scotland' | Openreach

Nine fearless fundraisers from Openreach have taken a heart-pounding leap of faith to support an engineer who’s battling Multiple Sclerosis.Their sponsored bungee jump off a bridge in Killiecrankie, Perthshire has netted nearly £2000 to help colleagu...

Perth is joining more than 2,800 UK towns, cities, boroughs, villages and hamlets included in Openreach’s Ultrafast Full Fibre broadband build plans. The once-in-a-generation, Full Fibre broadband upgrade will let thousands of local people and busine...

Openreach is building a new ultrafast broadband network for Tillicoultry – giving residents and businesses access to some of the fastest, most reliable broadband anywhere in Europe. The once-in-a-generation, Full Fibre broadband upgrade will let thou...

Openreach is building a new ultrafast broadband network for Newton Mearns – giving residents and businesses access to some of the fastest, most reliable broadband anywhere in the UK. The once-in-a-generation, Full Fibre broadband upgrade will let tho...

Openreach is building a new ultrafast broadband network for Rutherglen – giving residents and businesses access to some of the fastest, most reliable broadband anywhere in Europe. The once-in-a-generation, Full Fibre broadband upgrade will let thousa...

Openreach has started work to build a new ultrafast broadband network for Annan – giving residents and businesses access to some of the fastest, most reliable broadband anywhere in Europe. The once-in-a-generation, Full Fibre broadband upgrade will l...

Openreach has started work to build a new ultrafast broadband network for Shotts – giving residents and businesses access to some of the fastest, most reliable broadband anywhere in Europe. The once-in-a-generation, Full Fibre broadband upgrade will ...

A Glenrothes engineer who helps keep Fifers connected has been named Openreach’s Engineer of the Year.Lee Carmichael, who installs full fibre broadband around Fife, won the company’s highest engineering award and the Exceptional Engineer award at a c...

Thousands of residents in Dunfermline could be missing out on some of the fastest, most reliable broadband in Europe.Openreach has spent more than £5.4m million[1] locally so far to build a new ultrafast, ultra-reliable full fibre network in Dunferml...

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...

An inclusive football club, which gives Glaswegians from all different backgrounds a safe place to play the game, is teaming up with Openreach, the UK’s largest broadband network.A new, 12-month partnership will see the digital network company suppor...

Openreach is starting work to build a new ultrafast broadband network for Bishopbriggs – giving residents and businesses access to some of the fastest, most reliable broadband anywhere in the UK.The once-in-a-generation, full fibre broadband upgrade ...

Openreach is starting work to build a new ultrafast broadband network for Falkirk – giving residents and businesses access to some of the fastest, most reliable broadband anywhere in the UK.The digital network business also announced this week that G...

More than half of homes and businesses in Ayrshire now have access to some of the fastest, most reliable broadband in Europe - with thousands more to benefit this year.More than 100,000 premises - including 96,000 homes and 4,800 businesses - across ...

More than 800,000 homes and businesses across Scotland can now connect to some of the fastest, most reliable broadband in Europe, with hundreds of thousands more in line for an ultrafast upgrade this year.Openreach engineers will extend its ultrafast...

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...

Openreach’s new ultrafast broadband network in Greenock has now passed its first 2,000 properties  – giving residents, businesses and school pupils access to some of the fastest, most reliable broadband anywhere in the UK.The once-in-a-generation, Fu...

North East Fife MP Wendy Chamberlain met Openreach engineers to check on the latest rollout of ultrafast, ultra-reliable full fibre broadband in Fife. The new, gigabit network now reaches more than 40,000 properties across the Kingdom – a £12 million...

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...

Openreach, the leading digital network business in Scotland, has appointed a new Service Delivery director.Jenni Macfarlane will lead a field force of around 1,200 engineers whose role is to keep people connected across the whole of Scotland, on beha...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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, ...