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Connecting everyone in the North East to ‘full fibre’ broadband by 2025 would create a £1.7 billion boost to the region’s economy, by unlocking smarter ways of working, better public services and greater opportunities for the next-generation of home-...

Connecting everyone in the North West to ‘full fibre’ broadband by 2025 would create a £5.5 billion boost to the region’s economy, by unlocking smarter ways of working, better public services and greater opportunities for the next-generation of home-...

Connecting everyone in Yorkshire and the Humber to ‘full fibre’ broadband by 2025 would create a £3.8 billion boost to the region’s economy, by unlocking smarter ways of working, better public services and greater opportunities for the next-generatio...

Some of the fastest and most reliable broadband in the UK is heading to the villages of Hesketh Bank and Parbold, after they were named as two of 13 rural communities to benefit from a new broadband trial. Openreach engineers will be working in th...

Some of the fastest and most reliable broadband in the UK is heading to the village of Flockton, after it was named as one of 13 rural communities to benefit from a new broadband trial. Openreach engineers will be working in the West Yorkshire vil...

Some of the fastest and most reliable broadband in the UK is heading to the villages of Tarporley and Mickle Trafford, after they were named as two of 13 rural communities to benefit from a new broadband trial. Openreach engineers will be working ...

Some of the fastest, most reliable broadband services in the UK are heading to Bradford, after the city was named amongst 29 new locations to benefit from Openreach’s nationwide investment programme Work to build new future-proof Fibre-to-the-Prem...

Some of the fastest, most reliable broadband services in the UK are heading to Lancashire, after Aughton and Ormskirk were named amongst 29 new locations to benefit from Openreach’s nationwide investment programme Work to build new future-proof Fi...

Superfast South Yorkshire (SFSY) today celebrated the successful completion of their £27 million contract to deliver faster broadband to residents and businesses across South Yorkshire.   ...

Openreach is investing £1.7 million in a new fibre training centre in Bolton. The new facility is part of a wider plan to educate the next generation of digital engineers bringing vital broadband services to communities across the North West and beyo...

More than 45,000 homes and businesses in Salford can now access the UK’s fastest broadband speeds. Engineers from Openreach, the UK’s largest telephone and broadband network, began work to build a new ‘full fibre’ network in February last year. Us...

Connecting Cheshire celebrated the completion of its six-year multi-million pound superfast broadband programme with the ceremonial switching on of the final broadband cabinet to ‘go live’ as part of the roll-out. The new fibre cabinet in Windle H...

Thousands of the most rural homes and businesses in Yorkshire and the Humber are looking forward to a faster future thanks to the arrival of high-speed broadband. Openreach, the UK’s largest telephone and broadband network, is announcing (Monday 8...

More South Yorkshire homes and businesses than ever before can now enjoy faster, fibre broadband through the £27 million Superfast South Yorkshire broadband rollout. And more than 50,000 (44 per cent) premises within the Superfast South Yorkshire ...

Openreach, the UK’s digital infrastructure company, today announced Sheffield as one of 36 towns and cities that are set to benefit from Openreach’s rollout of some of the fastest broadband speeds in the UK. In Sheffield, new Fibre-to-the-Premises...

Openreach has given the ‘green’ light to its first fully operational electric vans in a bid to reduce CO2 and eliminate exhaust pollution. The new vehicles, sporting a special design to spell out their green credentials, took to the roads of Leeds...

Connecting Cumbria has announced plans today (25 July) to bring some of the fastest broadband speeds in the UK to more than 2,000 homes and businesses in harder to reach rural areas of Cumbria. The Connecting Cumbria broadband rollout, a partnersh...

Thousands of the North East’s most rural homes and businesses are looking forward to a faster future thanks to the arrival of high-speed broadband. Openreach, the UK’s largest telephone and broadband network, is announcing (Monday 8 July) that mor...

Thousands of the North West’s most rural homes and businesses are looking forward to a faster future thanks to the arrival of high-speed broadband. Openreach, the UK’s largest telephone and broadband network, is announcing (Monday 8 July) that mor...

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. ...

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 ...

Openreach broadband cabinets in the Kelham Island area of Sheffield are taking on a new appearance, thanks to a special partnership with local artists. ...

Engineers bringing some of the fastest broadband speeds in the UK to Greater Manchester have drafted in a DRONE to fly cable across a stretch of canal. ...

More than 70 trainee engineers will be hired across the North East, as part of a huge recruitment drive announced (Monday 28 January 2019) by Openreach. ...

More than 250 trainee engineers will be hired across the North West, as part of a huge recruitment drive announced (Monday 28 January 2019) by Openreach. ...

More than 200 trainee engineers will be hired across Yorkshire, as part of a huge recruitment drive announced (Monday 28 January 2019) by Openreach. ...