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2023
17
May
2023
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12:02
Europe/Amsterdam
Openreach is urging people living and working in Appleton Roebuck 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-lif...
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17
May
2023
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12:00
Europe/Amsterdam
Openreach is urging people living and working in Eastrington 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...
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2022
10
February
2022
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01:01
Europe/Amsterdam
Openreach today announced it will create and fill more than 250 more jobs in Yorkshire and the Humber during 2022 – including around 200 apprenticeships – as it continues to invest billions of pounds into its UK broadband network, people and training...
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2020
28
September
2020
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13:06
Europe/Amsterdam
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 Yorkshire and the Humber, and the ...
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29
July
2020
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13:01
Europe/Amsterdam
Openreach today outlined plans to make ultra-reliable and gigabit-capable full fibre broadband available to homes and businesses in and around 26 market towns and villages across Yorkshire and the Humber. The new locations, including Bridlington, Otl...
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2019
31
December
2019
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14:37
Europe/Amsterdam
Openreach is ready for the worst of the winter weather after stocking up on thousands of snow shoes, snow socks for vehicle tyres, bags of salt and litres of screenwash.Lessons learned from dealing with extreme conditions during recent years has seen...
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11
June
2019
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13:06
Europe/Amsterdam
Openreach’s training school in Bradford is throwing open its doors later this month (Sunday 23 June Midday – 2.30pm) in a bid to raise the profile of female engineers.
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10
April
2019
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09:59
Europe/Amsterdam
An Openreach training centre in Bradford is celebrating a successful first year with news that more than 5,500 engineers and new recruits have been trained at the facility since its official launch in March last year
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20
March
2019
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14:41
Europe/Amsterdam
Openreach broadband cabinets in the Kelham Island area of Sheffield are taking on a new appearance, thanks to a special partnership with local artists.
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28
January
2019
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07:00
Europe/Amsterdam
More than 200 trainee engineers will be hired across Yorkshire, as part of a huge recruitment drive announced (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
17
December
2018
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11:00
Europe/Amsterdam
Around 9,000 homes and businesses across South Yorkshire are set to gain access to some of the fastest broadband speeds available in the UK.
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29
November
2018
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12:16
Europe/Amsterdam
Broadband leaders from Leeds City Council are up to speed with Openreach’s Full Fibre rollout, after a behind the scenes look at how engineers are making ultrafast broadband available across the city.
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26
November
2018
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07:30
Europe/Amsterdam
Downloading a film and sharing or streaming content could become faster and more reliable for tens of thousands of homes and businesses across Yorkshire and the Humber.
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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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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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25
June
2018
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11:56
Europe/Amsterdam
New cutting edge broadband technology is heading to Yorkshire as Openreach gets ready to make its new network available to more than 36,000 homes and businesses there.
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25
June
2018
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09:13
Europe/Amsterdam
Builds upon existing 46 locations around Britain where cutting edge technology is already enabling trouble-free homeworking, multiple HD video streaming and instant file downloads Upgrade will future-proof homes and businesses for next generation te...
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15
March
2018
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09:00
Europe/Amsterdam
An engineering firm in Keighley, specialising in the design and manufacturing of foundry equipment, has slashed the time it takes to send online business critical data from an hour to a matter of minutes thanks to an upgrade to superfast broadband....
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15
March
2018
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01:00
Europe/Amsterdam
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rt Hon Philip Hammond MP, today welcomed news that Openreach, Britain’s leading digital network business, will hire 3,500 new trainee engineers over the next 12 months. The largest recruitment drive in the company’s ...
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15
March
2018
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00:01
Europe/Amsterdam
220 new trainee engineers for Yorkshire and the Humber in Openreach’s biggest ever recruitment drive
Around 220 trainee engineers will be hired across Yorkshire and the Humber as part of the largest recruitment drive ever undertaken by Openreach.
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15
March
2018
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00:01
Europe/Amsterdam
Around 90 trainee engineers will be hired across North Yorkshire as part of the largest recruitment drive ever undertaken by Openreach.
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15
March
2018
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00:01
Europe/Amsterdam
More than 90 trainee engineers will be hired across West Yorkshire as part of the largest recruitment drive ever undertaken by Openreach.
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12
March
2018
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10:34
Europe/Amsterdam
Yorkshire and the Humber is expected to get a multi-million pound boost from an initiative which sees local communities forming partnerships with Openreach to bring high-speed fibre broadband to rural homes and businesses.
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15
February
2018
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15:45
Europe/Amsterdam
North Yorkshire County Council and its wholly-owned company NYnet have signed the contract for phase three of its Superfast North Yorkshire (SFNY) project with Openreach.
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01
February
2018
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08:55
Europe/Amsterdam
Leeds will be one of the first cities to benefit from proposals announced today by Openreach for a major acceleration of its ultrafast fibre broadband network.
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29
January
2018
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15:49
Europe/Amsterdam
South Yorkshire was praised today for playing a leading role in Great Britain achieving the target of 95 per cent superfast broadband coverage.
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29
January
2018
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15:37
Europe/Amsterdam
Northern Lincolnshire plays leading role in Britain achieving 95 per cent superfast broadband target
Northern Lincs was praised today for playing a leading role in Great Britain achieving the target of 95 per cent superfast broadband coverage.
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04
January
2018
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09:44
Europe/Amsterdam
Latest ultrafast technology – known as Gfast - now available to thousands of Sheffield residents
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04
January
2018
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09:35
Europe/Amsterdam
Latest ultrafast technology – known as Gfast - now available to thousands of Leeds residents
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