Articles tagged with 'West Midlands' | Openreach

Leamington Spa, a town steeped in history, is ready to embrace the future as it joins more than 2,800 UK communities in having access to Openreach’s Full Fibre broadband network.The once-in-a-generation, Full Fibre broadband upgrade will let thousand...

Day-to-day business for a home-based Staffordshire business is being transformed due to faster and more reliable full fibre broadband.With instant upload and downloads and immediate connection to clients, Chris and Louise Saunders’ leaflet distributi...

A South Birmingham football club with teams across all age groups is joining forces with Openreach.The 12-month partnership will see the digital network company supporting Crusaders FC (Facebook) by funding new training kit and equipment, including m...

Openreach is urging residents in Alderminster and Ilmington, Warwickshire, 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...

Openreach is urging residents in Bobbington, Staffordshire, 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 ...

More than 85,000 homes and businesses across Staffordshire can already order some of the fastest, most reliable broadband in Europe thanks to a £26 million investment by Openreach.  And more areas are set to benefit, as engineers are now starting wor...

Openreach, the UK’s largest phone and broadband network, is busy preparing for extreme winter weather and has some useful advice for homes and businesses across the West Midlands.The company, which builds and maintains the UK’s largest phone and broa...

Stoke-on-Trent South MP Jack Brereton has visited Openreach engineers to witness first-hand the innovative engineering techniques being used to deliver Ultrafast Full Fibre broadband across his constituency.He was given a tour of the work, which is m...

Openreach, the UK’s largest broadband infrastructure provider, is joining forces with Ladder for Greater Birmingham with the aim of supporting and promoting apprenticeships across the region.The local campaign, launched in 2018, aims to create thousa...

More than 70,000 more homes and businesses in the West Midlands – mostly in the borough of Dudley - are set to benefit from a major broadband boost thanks to a £21m[1] investment by Openreach – the UK’s largest digital network provider, used by the l...

         Openreach today announced it will create and fill more than 300 more jobs across the West Midlands during 2022 – including around 230 apprenticeships – as it continues to invest billions of pounds into its UK broadband network, people and tr...

More than 159,000 more homes and businesses across the West Midlands are set to benefit from a major broadband boost thanks to a £47m[1] investment by Openreach – the UK’s largest digital network provider, used by the likes of BT, Sky, TalkTalk and V...

Openreach is seeing a positive change in the number of female recruits joining the company across the West Midlands.It’s after the UK’s largest broadband network - used by customers of hundreds of companies including BT, Sky, Plusnet, TalkTalk and Ze...

95,000 more homes and businesses across the West Midlands are a step closer to a major broadband boost thanks to a £33m[1] investment by Openreach – the UK’s largest digital network provider, used by more than 660 service providers including the like...

More than 30 homes in Outhill, near Studley, have seen a huge improvement to their broadband connection in recent months, due to a determined campaign led by local resident and NHS Doctor, Asad Rahim.Frustrated with slow speeds during the pandemic wh...

Around 334,000 more West Midlands homes and businesses are set to benefit from a broadband boost in the region of £134m[1] thanks to Openreach – the UK’s largest broadband network provider. People living and working in a number of towns and villages ...

Openreach today outlined plans to build ultrafast, ultra-reliable Full Fibre broadband to at least three million more homes and businesses – including around 185,000 in the West Midlands - in some of the UK’s hardest to serve communities[1].  It mean...

Damage to broadband cabinets, telephone poles and overhead wires across the West Midlands can now be reported to Openreach using precise locations from what3words.What3words grids the whole Earth into three metre squares, with each square given uniqu...

Openreach’s Regional Partnership Director for the West Midlands, Kasam Hussain, 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 regi...

More than 35 new online training courses are being delivered as part of a multi-million pound investment at Openreach’s training schools – including Yarnfield in Staffordshire – as engineers continue to learn the skills required to keep the UK’s broa...

A Dudley cafe owner is being presented with a Community Connectors Award by digital network provider Openreach in recognition for her efforts during lockdown.Paula Goodyear, who runs Fountain Arcade Cafe (Market Place) organised meals and the deliver...

A Warwickshire community group is being presented with a Community Connectors Award by digital network provider Openreach in recognition for their support of the NHS during lockdown.Keeping in contact by phone and email, Wellesbourne Scrubbers - set ...

Openreach is urging people in the small Staffordshire community of Swindon to get behind a bid to make ultrafast, ultra-reliable full fibre broadband available. The company – supported by the county council - is asking local residents and businesses ...

Openreach today bucked the prevailing economic trend by creating at least 160 new West Midlands engineering jobs, to be filled during 2021.The new roles, across Staffordshire, Warwickshire, the West Midlands, Herefordshire and Worcestershire, will en...

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 UK to nominate an individual f...

Openreach today announced that more than 40,000 homes and businesses in and around Coventry can now access some of the fastest, most reliable broadband anywhere in the UK.As designated key workers, Openreach engineers have been hard at work throughou...

An increase in abuse directed at Openreach engineers, largely due to a mistaken belief they’re working on 5G, is hampering essential work to keep the Midlands connected. Openreach is the UK’s largest phone and broadband network – used by customers...

It seems scarcely believable that just a month ago, towns and cities across the West Midlands were packed with shoppers and workers going about their daily business. Life was as close to what used to pass for normal.  But since then, everything ha...

Openreach today outlined plans to make ultrafast, ultra-reliable and future-proof broadband available in 9 market towns and villages across the West Midlands.It’s part of a bigger announcement involving 227[1] ‘harder to reach’ areas across the UK, w...

Kasam Hussain is Openreach’s new Partnership Director covering the Midlands, strengthening relationships between the UK’s largest telephone and broadband network and local stakeholders.He’ll be working closely with policymakers, council representativ...