Articles tagged with 'fibre broadband' | Openreach

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...

·       36 more rural and urban locations added to its build plan – covering 500k more premisesOpenreach has now built ultra-fast, ultra-reliable Full Fibre broadband to more than seven million homes and businesses across the UK, including more than ...

Openreach today announces the appointment of Natalie Ceeney as a non-executive member to its Board, replacing Liz Benison who will be stepping down on 30th April 2022. Liz joined the Openreach Board in March 2017 and has since then completed over fiv...

20% of engineers hired in 2021 were women, up from less than 5% in 2018/19Openreach today announced it will create and fill more than 4,000 jobs during 2022 – including around 3,000 apprenticeships – as it continues to invest billions of pounds into ...

Openreach adds 170 more locations to its Full Fire broadband plan Engineers now reaching a new home with Full Fibre every 13 seconds Openreach today announced that six million homes and businesses can now place an order for its next generation ultraf...

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...

First Minister for Wales, Mark Drakeford, opens brand new ‘National Learning Centre for Wales’ in Newport (fersiwn Cymraeg isod / Welsh version below) ...

Openreach help revolutionise the way North Wales Wildlife Trust work with ultrafast full fibre (gweler fersiwn Cymraeg isod / Welsh version below)...

Openreach step in to bring ultrafast full fibre broadband to Llanelli housing estate and call for full fibre to be made mandatory on all new housing developments (Gweler fersiwn Cymraeg isod / Welsh version below)...

Successful test conducted at Openreach’s Adastral Park lab in Ipswich, UKOpenreach to launch field trial in December 2021Trials prove that current GPON and XGS-PON broadband technologies and future upgrades to 25G PON will work together seamlesslyOpe...

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...

A delegation of Denbigh dignitaries met up with Openreach engineers on Friday (09 July) to witness first-hand some of the innovative work that’s being carried out to upgrade the historic market town and wider community with the next generation of fib...

 Openreach has announced a special offer for its wholesale Communications Provider (CP) customers which gives them long-term price certainty on its FTTP (Fibre-to-the-Premises) technology. Openreach is seeking to drive widespread adoption of ultrafas...

By December 2025, the current analogue phone network will reach the end of its life Openreach is calling on UK businesses to start planning for life without the analogue phone network, by conducting an audit of their systems and devices. By December ...

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...

Openreach today outlined plans to build ultrafast, ultra-reliable Full Fibre broadband to 551 more towns and cities – covering some 5 million homes and businesses – as part of its £15 billion programme to reach 25 million premises all over the UK.The...

Upgrades for 3m more premises in the toughest third of the country[i] supporting UK Government target of making Gigabit capable broadband available to at least 85% of country by 2025Recruitment already under way to fill a further 1,000 new engineerin...

A Digital Charter to support a faster rollout of ultrafast Full Fibre broadband for homes and businesses has been agreed between Openreach and Bromley Council.The partnership agreement follows Openreach’s announcement that it aims to connect tens of ...

Statement from Openreach in response to BT Group PLC Full Year Results to March 2021 (07:00am, Thursday 13 May)Clive Selley, CEO, Openreach said:“We’re proud that BT Group is increasing its ambition for Openreach.“We’ve already proven that we can bui...

Damage to broadband cabinets, telephone poles and overhead wires across Wales can now be reported to Openreach using precise locations from what3words.What3words grids the Earth into three metre squares, with each square given unique words to make it...

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...

Openreach’s Regional Partnership Director for the South East, Kieran Wines, 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 Ea...

Today, Openreach’s Regional Partnership Director for London, Kieran Wines 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 London could ena...

Statement from Openreach regarding The Wholesale Fixed Telecoms Market Review 2021-26 (08:00am, Thursday 18 March) Clive Selley, CEO, Openreach said:“Today’s regulation will allow us to ramp up to 3 million premises per year providing vital next gene...

Openreach is asking people living in Beaumaris to get behind a push for faster broadband. (Gweler fersiwn Cymraeg isod - Welsh version below) ...

Openreach engineers spent four chilly nights under the stars to solve a broadband puzzle for residents of picturesque Pettinain village near Carstairs.A specialist team from the Chief Engineer’s investigations unit was drafted in following repeated c...

Around 15,000 new homes per annum nationwide set to benefit Barratt Developments, Britain’s biggest house builder, has partnered with Openreach to ensure that the national network provider’s ultrafast, ultra-reliable ‘Full Fibre’ broadband is install...

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...

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 of women (24...