Articles tagged with 'Scotland' | Openreach

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, ...

Openreach has reported a positive change in the number of female recruits joining the company in both field and desk roles in Scotland.It’s after the UK’s largest broadband network - used by customers of hundreds of companies including BT, Sky, Plusn...

Openreach’s 3,200-strong workforce across Scotland has launched a Christmas campaign for Home-Start to support some of the nation’s most vulnerable families and children.Volunteers from the digital network business collected 5,000 gifts for 1,100 chi...

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...

Another 272,000 Scottish homes and businesses are set for a major broadband boost thanks to a £95m[1] Scottish investment by Openreach – the nation’s largest digital network provider, used by customers of service providers like BT, Sky, TalkTalk and ...

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...

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

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...

Scotland’s iconic Forth Road Bridge is set for a new lease of life – carrying ultrafast internet traffic for the historic town which lies in its shadow.Openreach Scotland Board chair Katie Milligan says the “once in a generation engineering task” wil...

Openreach today outlined plans to build ultrafast, ultra-reliable Full Fibre broadband to at least three million more homes and businesses – including more than 300,000 in Scotland – in some of the UK’s hardest to serve communities[i].  It means fewe...

More than 35 new online training courses are being delivered as part of a multi-million pound investment at Openreach’s training schools – including Livingston – as engineers continue to learn the skills required to keep Scotland connected during the...

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...

Thousands of people living and working in Peebles and Glentress are now able to connect to some of the fastest and most reliable broadband in the UK.Openreach – the UK’s largest broadband network - has been building a new ultra-reliable, gigabit-capa...