Articles tagged with 'engineers' | Openreach

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2024
18
January
2024
| 14:57 Europe/Amsterdam
Openreach today launches ‘With Every Fibre’, research that provides new insights into the life of a modern-day broadband engineer.Over 2,500 Openreach workers took part in this unique survey, which revealed that being an engineer in 2024 is about
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18
January
2024
| 10:09 Europe/Amsterdam
Swansea man believed to be the longest serving employee ever to work for Openreach, its parent the BT Group, and predecessor the General Post Office. (Gweler fersiwn Cymraeg isod / Please see Welsh language version below)
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2023
20
September
2023
| 11:00 Europe/Amsterdam
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
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20
June
2023
| 11:45 Europe/Amsterdam
Openreach volunteers swap hard hats and ladders for walking boots to help raise money for Wales Air Ambulance. (Gweler fersiwn Cymraeg isod /Welsh language version below)
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14
April
2023
| 14:24 Europe/Amsterdam
UK’s largest wholesale network provider recognised by Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA)
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2022
04
October
2022
| 01:01 Europe/Amsterdam
An Openreach engineer had an unexpected passenger on a 100-mile trip to Coll to fix a broadband connection for the island’s fire station.Tia the cat sneaked into Doug Craig’s van as he loaded up in Oban, Argyll & Bute, at 4am, and hid in the
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25
May
2022
| 11:28 Europe/Amsterdam
Chris Elmore MP goes back to school to join Openreach trainee engineers at National Learning Centre for Wales in Newport (Gweler fersiwn Cymraeg isod / Welsh language version below)
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17
May
2022
| 10:43 Europe/Amsterdam
More than 170,000 more homes and businesses in the North East are set to benefit from a major broadband boost thanks to a £51m[1] investment by Openreach – the UK’s largest digital network provider, used by the likes of BT, Sky, TalkTalk, Vodafone
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10
February
2022
| 01:01 Europe/Amsterdam
Openreach today announced it will create and fill around 250 additional jobs across Wales during 2022 – including more than 200 apprenticeships – as it continues to invest billions of pounds into its UK broadband network, people and training.
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2021
23
December
2021
| 10:00 Europe/Amsterdam
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
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08
December
2021
| 14:41 Europe/Amsterdam
Leader of Newport City Council, Cllr Jane Mudd and Ruth Jones MP for Newport West take a look around £1.7m new learning centre (Gweler fersiwn Cymraeg isod / Welsh language version below)
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15
September
2021
| 18:00 Europe/Amsterdam
First Minister for Wales, Mark Drakeford, opens brand new ‘National Learning Centre for Wales’ in Newport (fersiwn Cymraeg isod / Welsh version below) 
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13
January
2021
| 08:00 Europe/Amsterdam
Gender biased language discourages as many as one in two: Consciously unbiased job specifications help to attract up to 50% more female applicants 200% uplift in female applicants when language is changed Latent bias runs deep: A quarter
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2020
18
December
2020
| 09:14 Europe/Amsterdam
Openreach today bucked the prevailing economic trend by creating at least 108 new Welsh-based engineering jobs to be filled during 2021, alongside more roles in its supply chain. (Gweler fersiwn Cymraeg isod / Welsh language version below)
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29
September
2020
| 13:08 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 the North East, and the rest of
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29
September
2020
| 12:58 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 the North West, and the rest of
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22
September
2020
| 09:28 Europe/Amsterdam
Openreach’s most experienced engineers turn detectives to solve 18-month mystery that’s plagued the broadband connections of residents living in the rural village of Aberhosan near Machynlleth, Wales. (Fersiwn Cymraeg isod / Welsh
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24
August
2020
| 11:00 Europe/Amsterdam
Intrepid engineer John McConnell dived straight in when residents on one of Scotland’s smallest inhabited islands were cut off from the outside world. Curious campers tugged up a subsea cable on the beach at Balmaha, Loch Lomond, leaving
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11
August
2020
| 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
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12
June
2020
| 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
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27
January
2020
| 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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17
January
2020
| 11:46 Europe/Amsterdam
The village of Llandybie in Carmarthenshire is the latest community in Wales to have access to some of the fastest and most reliable broadband speeds in Europe thanks to Openreach. More than 200 homes across the Bro Dinefwr village will be part
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2019
24
December
2019
| 15:01 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
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24
December
2019
| 15:00 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
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24
December
2019
| 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
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22
November
2019
| 10:34 Europe/Amsterdam
Welsh Assembly drop-in session highlights Openreach’s plans for Wales’ digital future Welsh politicians had a chance to quiz engineers from Openreach about Wales’ digital future during a drop-in session at the Welsh Assembly
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2018
27
December
2018
| 10:00 Europe/Amsterdam
Openreach is stocking up on thousands of snow shoes, salt and screenwash to make sure millions of people stay connected in the event of severe weather this winter. Lessons learned from dealing with extreme weather over the last few winters has seen
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23
April
2018
| 09:49 Europe/Amsterdam
Openreach today announced it was stepping up its search for trainee engineers in Cambridge and the surrounding area.
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15
March
2018
| 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
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15
March
2018
| 00:05 Europe/Amsterdam
More than 450 trainee engineers will be hired across the South West as part of the largest recruitment drive ever undertaken by Openreach.
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