Articles tagged with 'north west of england' | Openreach

Openreach today outlined plans to make ultrafast, ultra-reliable and future-proof broadband available in 41 market towns and villages in the North West. It’s part of a bigger announcement involving 227[1] ‘harder to reach’ areas across the UK, wit...

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 ...

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. ...

A new campaign has been launched to raise awareness of the increased coverage of superfast broadband across Cheshire, Halton and Warrington....

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...

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....

Pupils at ​Hallbankgate Village School, near Brampton, are looking into the future, after giving the broadband cabinet outside their school a colourful makeover....

Downloading a film and sharing or streaming content could become faster and more reliable for more than 150,000 homes and businesses across the North West....

Connecting Cumbria Fibre Sign-ups top 50 per cent - news welcomed by Trudy Harrison MP...

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 Wirral has today (Monday, 24 September) been announced as the latest area to benefit from Openreach’s ‘Fibre First’ programme, where fibre optic cables are laid from the exchange right to people’s front doors....

MP Rory Stewart praises Connecting Cumbria efforts to bring faster broadband to rural areas...

Work to roll-out ultrafast broadband in Liverpool is well underway – with tens of thousands of homes and businesses in the final stages of being connected - Openreach’s managing director, Kim Mears, announced during a visit to the city....

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...

New cutting edge broadband technology is heading to the North West as Openreach gets ready to make its new network available to more than 43,000 homes and businesses there....

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...

Government subsidy scheme helps fund fibre installation...

Tim Farron MP welcomes arrival of fibre broadband which is up to 40 times faster More than 700 fibre broadband cabinets and structures installed across county...

Two communities in Cheshire East to benefit from Openreach Community Fibre Partnership (CFP) New technology capable of delivering ultrafast speeds up to one gigabit per second...

• Liverpool, Manchester, Warrington, Blackburn and Penrith among the locations to benefit • 3,500 new engineers across the UK will help deliver ultrafast Fibre to the Premises broadband to three million premises, support evolving mobile networks and ...

First of 12 new national fibre engineering schools opens in Bradford 3,500 new engineers will help deliver ultrafast Fibre to the Premises broadband to three million premises, support evolving mobile networks and improve customer service Includ...

• Ashton-under-Lyne, Bolton, Central Manchester, Rochdale and Stockport among the locations to benefit • 3,500 new engineers across the UK will help deliver ultrafast Fibre to the Premises broadband to three million premises, support evolving mobile ...

• Congleton, Crewe, Macclesfield and Northwich among the locations to benefit • 3,500 new engineers across the UK will help deliver ultrafast Fibre to the Premises broadband to three million premises, support evolving mobile networks and improve cust...

• Blackburn, Lancaster, Ribble Valley and Preston among the locations to benefit • 3,500 new engineers across the UK will help deliver ultrafast Fibre to the Premises broadband to three million premises, support evolving mobile networks and improve c...

• Birkenhead, Liverpool, Southport and St Helens among the locations to benefit • 3,500 new engineers across the UK will help deliver ultrafast Fibre to the Premises broadband to three million premises, support evolving mobile networks and improve cu...

• Barrow, Carlisle, Copeland, Penrith and Westmorland among the locations to benefit • 3,500 new engineers across the UK will help deliver ultrafast Fibre to the Premises broadband to three million premises, support evolving mobile networks and impro...

Faster broadband boosts house prices and business success as well as providing a range of social benefits for rural communities, according to independent report....

Project to bring fast fibre technology to Merseyside community is 500th of its kind in UK Community, led by Barnstondale Activity Centre, qualifies for £25,000 grant through Openreach...

Local businesses featured in video about fibre broadband benefits...

• First eight cities named as build accelerates from 2018 to cover urban and rural communities • Sets course to reach 10m homes and businesses by mid-2020s with the right conditions • Plans to recruit and train 3,000 field engineers in 2018...