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2023
09
May
2023
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21:31
Europe/Amsterdam
Cheriton is joining more than 2,800 towns, cities, boroughs, villages and hamlets included in Openreach’s Full Fibre broadband build plans. The once-in-a-generation, Full Fibre broadband upgrade will let thousands of local people and businesses con...
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08
March
2023
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14:59
Europe/Amsterdam
More than 55,000 homes and businesses across Oxfordshire can now order some of the fastest, most reliable broadband in Europe thanks to Openreach, the UK’s digital network provider.Many people living and working in Banbury and Thame can already benef...
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06
February
2023
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14:11
Europe/Amsterdam
The Rt Hon Natalie Elphicke OBE MP visited Openreach engineers in Deal to witness first-hand the innovative engineering techniques being used to deliver ultrafast Full Fibre broadband across her constituency.She was given a tour of the work, which h...
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01
February
2023
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14:10
Europe/Amsterdam
The Rt Hon Tom Tugendhat MP visited Openreach engineers to witness first-hand the innovative engineering techniques being used to deliver ultrafast Full Fibre broadband across his Tonbridge and Malling constituency.He was given a tour of the work, w...
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2022
06
December
2022
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11:21
Europe/Amsterdam
Openreach, the UK’s largest phone and broadband network, is busy preparing for extreme winter weather and has some useful advice for residents and business owners across the South East.The Company, which builds and maintains the UK’s largest phone an...
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29
November
2022
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15:19
Europe/Amsterdam
The Rt Hon Suella Braverman KC MP visited Openreach engineers to witness first-hand the innovative engineering techniques used to deliver ultrafast Full Fibre broadband across her Fareham constituency.She was given a tour of the work, which has alre...
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15
August
2022
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15:13
Europe/Amsterdam
Hastings and Rye MP, Sally-Ann Hart met engineers working in Hastings to learn about the new infrastructure being built by Openreach in the town to deliver ultrafast, ultra-reliable Full Fibre broadband to thousands of homes and businesses with an in...
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19
July
2022
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01:01
Europe/Amsterdam
Around 45,000 more homes and businesses across the Isle of Wight are set to benefit from a major broadband boost thanks to an estimated £13.5m[1] investment by Openreach – the UK’s largest digital network provider, used by the likes of BT, Sky, TalkT...
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2021
24
June
2021
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01:10
Europe/Amsterdam
Around 580,000 more South East homes and businesses are set to benefit from a broadband boost in the region of £232m[1] thanks to Openreach – the UK’s largest broadband network provider.People living and working in parts of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire...
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28
May
2021
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01:15
Europe/Amsterdam
Openreach today outlined plans to build ultrafast, ultra-reliable Full Fibre broadband to at least three million more homes and businesses – including 360,000 in the South East - in some of the UK’s hardest to serve communities[1]. It means fewer ho...
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12
May
2021
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10:16
Europe/Amsterdam
Damage to broadband cabinets, telephone poles and overhead wires across the South East can now be reported to Openreach using precise locations from what3words.What3words grids the whole Earth into three metre squares, with each square given unique w...
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28
April
2021
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01:01
Europe/Amsterdam
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...
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2020
18
December
2020
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08:00
Europe/Amsterdam
2,500 new roles at Openreach and an estimated 2,800 with partners, supporting £12bn broadband project
Commitment to upgrade the UK’s second largest commercial fleet to electric vehicles by 2030
A record 40,000 homes per week are now being reached...
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29
July
2020
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11:01
Europe/Amsterdam
Announcement includes locations in Buckinghamshire, East and West Sussex, Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent, Oxfordshire and SurreyOpenreach today outlined plans to make ultra-reliable and gigabit-capable Full Fibre broadband available to thousands of homes...
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27
January
2020
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03:00
Europe/Amsterdam
Openreach today outlined plans to make ultrafast, ultra-reliable and future-proof broadband available in 63 market towns and villages across the South East of England.It’s part of a bigger announcement involving 227[1] ‘harder to reach’ areas across ...
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2019
24
December
2019
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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 shoppin...
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16
December
2019
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08:00
Europe/Amsterdam
Last week the streets of Salisbury were lit up with the return of the Salisbury Lantern & Lights Procession which was proudly sponsored by Openreach.People braved the weather to join the procession, which was organised by Salisbury BID and Salisbury ...
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11
October
2019
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09:00
Europe/Amsterdam
Connecting everyone in the South East to ‘full fibre’ broadband by 2025 would create a £8.7 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-...
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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
28
November
2018
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09:55
Europe/Amsterdam
Downloading a film and sharing or streaming content could become faster and more reliable for more than 580,000 homes and businesses across the South East.
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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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31
July
2018
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14:30
Europe/Amsterdam
Full Fibre broadband available as East Hagbourne residents make full use of funding schemes. Openreach also announces it’s now signed more than 600 broadband partnerships with communities
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10
July
2018
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11:28
Europe/Amsterdam
Lee Anderson, an Openreach engineer from Reading, targets £1000 for cancer charities
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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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10:15
Europe/Amsterdam
New cutting edge broadband technology is heading to more of the South East as Openreach gets ready to make its new network available to another 31,300 homes and businesses in areas including Aylesbury, Byfleet, Cosham, Guildford, Maidstone, Slough, ...
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15
March
2018
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09:34
Europe/Amsterdam
More than 450 trainee engineers will be hired across the South East as part of the largest recruitment drive ever undertaken by Openreach. The announcement follows news that Openreach, Britain’s leading digital network business, will accelerate plans...
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15
March
2018
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07:48
Europe/Amsterdam
Abingdon, Banbury, Henley, Oxford and Witney among the locations to benefit from Openreach's largest recruitment drive. The business is taking on 3,500 new engineers across the UK to help deliver ultrafast Fibre to the Premises broadband to three mil...
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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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12
March
2018
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10:37
Europe/Amsterdam
Areas of the South East - including parts of Oxfordshire - are to get an £88.1 million boost from local community fibre broadband schemes, according to a new study. Faster broadband boosts house prices and business success as well as providing a rang...
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12
March
2018
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10:10
Europe/Amsterdam
The South East 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. An independent study published today ...
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