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2023
27
November
2023
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01:01
Europe/Amsterdam
It’s been announced today that 65% of Bristol, more than 145,000 homes and businesses, can now order some of the fastest, most reliable broadband in Europe thanks to a multi-million commercial investment by Openreach, the UK’s largest wholesale broad...
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22
May
2023
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13:51
Europe/Amsterdam
Openreach is urging residents in Badminton to get behind a bid to bring ultrafast, ultra-reliable full fibre broadband to local homes and businesses.The company is warning that the community risks missing out on a once-in-a-lifetime full fibre upgrad...
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08
February
2023
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17:38
Europe/Amsterdam
Openreach is starting work to build a new ultrafast broadband network for Frome – 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 le...
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08
February
2023
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15:59
Europe/Amsterdam
Openreach is starting work to build a new ultrafast broadband network for Chipping Sodbury – 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 upgr...
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23
January
2023
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16:47
Europe/Amsterdam
Only around 18 per cent of people who can upgrade to ultrafast Full Fibre across Torbay have done so – with thousands still missing out on faster, more reliable broadband services.People living and working across the Bay are being encouraged to find ...
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2022
06
December
2022
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11:20
Europe/Amsterdam
Openreach, the UK’s largest phone and broadband network, is busy preparing for extreme winter weather and has some useful advice for residents and business owners across the South West.The Company, which builds and maintains the UK’s largest phone an...
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2021
14
July
2021
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18:50
Europe/Amsterdam
Torbay MP Kevin Foster met engineers working in Paignton to learn about the new infrastructure being built by Openreach at a cost of £18m across Torbay to deliver ultrafast, Full Fibre broadband to thousands of homes and businesses as part of Openrea...
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24
June
2021
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01:20
Europe/Amsterdam
Around 280,000 more South West homes and businesses are set to benefit from a broadband boost in the region of £112m[1] thanks to Openreach – the UK’s largest broadband network provider.People living and working in parts of Bristol, Cornwall, Devon, ...
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28
May
2021
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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...
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11
May
2021
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17:35
Europe/Amsterdam
Damage to broadband cabinets, telephone poles and overhead wires across the South West 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 w...
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28
April
2021
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01:01
Europe/Amsterdam
Openreach’s Regional Partnership Director for the South West, Connie Dixon, 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 We...
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19
January
2021
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12:44
Europe/Amsterdam
Openreach engineers have connected the historic Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway to Full Fibre broadband - future-proofing North Devon’s much-loved tourism icon for generations to come.The Victorian railway is the UK's only fully water-powered railw...
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2020
18
December
2020
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08:00
Europe/Amsterdam
2,500 new roles at Openreach and an estimated 2,800 with partners, supporting £12bn broadband project
Commitment to upgrade the UK’s second largest commercial fleet to electric vehicles by 2030
A record 40,000 homes per week are now being reached...
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10
December
2020
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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...
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08
December
2020
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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...
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01
December
2020
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15:06
Europe/Amsterdam
Since March this year, more than 22,000 homes and businesses in Salisbury have been able to take advantage of Openreach’s revolutionary futureproof Full Fibre broadband network following a multi-million-pound investment in the city by the UK’s bigges...
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11
August
2020
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14:37
Europe/Amsterdam
An Openreach pledge last October to make ultrafast, ultra-reliable and future-proof broadband available in several market towns and villages across the South West has become a reality in the Devon town of Okehampton.More than 3,000 homes and business...
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12
June
2020
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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...
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27
January
2020
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03:00
Europe/Amsterdam
Openreach today outlined plans to make ultrafast, ultra-reliable and future-proof broadband available in 27 market towns and villages across the South West of England.It’s part of a bigger announcement involving 227[1] ‘harder to reach’ areas across ...
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2019
24
December
2019
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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...
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25
November
2019
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16:24
Europe/Amsterdam
Openreach has today announced that more than 80,000 homes and businesses across Bristol – nearly 40 per cent of all premises - can now access some of the fastest, most reliable broadband in the UK.Engineering teams have been hard at work building the...
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13
November
2019
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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...
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28
January
2019
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07:00
Europe/Amsterdam
More than 441 trainee engineers will be hired across the South West of England, as part of a huge recruitment drive announced today (Monday 28 January 2019) by Openreach.
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28
January
2019
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01:00
Europe/Amsterdam
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...
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2018
28
November
2018
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10:13
Europe/Amsterdam
New technology brings download speeds seven times faster than the national average Openreach announces 81 new UK locations, with more than 1 million homes and businesses set to benefit Downloading a film and sharing or streaming content could become ...
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01
October
2018
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08:44
Europe/Amsterdam
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 ...
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25
September
2018
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13:00
Europe/Amsterdam
A group of properties along Dorset’s Jurassic Coast are to get some of the fastest internet connections in the UK.
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10
July
2018
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01:00
Europe/Amsterdam
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...
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04
July
2018
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08:55
Europe/Amsterdam
Work to roll-out faster, more reliable broadband in parts of Bristol is well underway – with a new network connecting tens of thousands of homes and buildings in the final stages of being built – Openreach’s managing director, Kim Mears, announced du...
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29
June
2018
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10:30
Europe/Amsterdam
Exeter has been announced as the latest city to benefit from Openreach’s ‘Fibre First’ programme which is making Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) technology available to three million homes and businesses across the UK by 2020....
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