Articles tagged with 'superfast broadband' | Openreach

Press and Media | Openreach (superfast broadband)

2021
05
July
2021
| 11:00 Europe/Amsterdam
More than 950,600 households and businesses across Scotland were reached by the £463 million Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband rollout, final data released today reveals.As the huge civil engineering programme was ‘piped out’ in
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01
February
2021
| 12:00 Europe/Amsterdam
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
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2019
29
April
2019
| 10:30 Europe/Amsterdam
New research suggests that every public pound invested in fibre broadband in Scotland is delivering almost £12 of benefits to the Scottish economy.
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16
April
2019
| 14:16 Europe/Amsterdam
Paul Wheelhouse, MSP, Minister for Energy, Connectivity and the Islands, joined the Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband team and Openreach to celebrate the latest fibre broadband connection in the Whitsome area in the Scottish Borders.
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08
April
2019
| 14:00 Europe/Amsterdam
Stirling MSP Bruce Crawford today visited Openreach engineers working on an installation of the next generation of broadband technology for new homes in Raploch. He saw a ‘full-fibre’ network built directly to the properties to deliver ultrafast
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08
April
2019
| 10:00 Europe/Amsterdam
Cowdenbeath MSP Annabelle Ewing has been shadowing Openreach engineers to see the latest developments in high-speed broadband in her constituency. More than 98 per cent of premises in the Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath area are now able to connect to
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05
April
2019
| 10:11 Europe/Amsterdam
More Staffordshire residents are being urged to get connected to superfast broadband, now that most of the county is able to access the technology.
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27
February
2019
| 11:47 Europe/Amsterdam
A new campaign has been launched to raise awareness of the increased coverage of superfast broadband across Cheshire, Halton and Warrington.
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2018
06
November
2018
| 15:17 Europe/Amsterdam
Leicestershire County Council’s broadband programme, Superfast Leicestershire has connected it’s 600th cabinet to fibre broadband, enabling more people across the county to access to the new high-speed technology
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09
October
2018
| 11:16 Europe/Amsterdam
Connecting Cumbria Fibre Sign-ups top 50 per cent - news welcomed by Trudy Harrison MP
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28
August
2018
| 09:41 Europe/Amsterdam
​Tamworth now has near total superfast broadband coverage thanks to a county council scheme that’s making faster download speeds available to most of Staffordshire.
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27
March
2018
| 11:57 Europe/Amsterdam
Staff at a 200 year old mill in a remote corner of Northumberland are no longer on tenterhooks waiting for their broadband connection since upgrading to superfast.
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27
March
2018
| 11:52 Europe/Amsterdam
More than half of the Northumberland homes and businesses included in the first phase of the iNorthumberland broadband roll-out are already signed up to a superfast broadband service, according to latest figures.
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15
March
2018
| 09:00 Europe/Amsterdam
An engineering firm in Keighley, specialising in the design and manufacturing of foundry equipment, has slashed the time it takes to send online business critical data from an hour to a matter of minutes thanks to an upgrade to superfast broadband.
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12
March
2018
| 10:34 Europe/Amsterdam
Yorkshire and the Humber 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.
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12
March
2018
| 10:32 Europe/Amsterdam
The North 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.
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15
February
2018
| 15:45 Europe/Amsterdam
North Yorkshire County Council and its wholly-owned company NYnet have signed the contract for phase three of its Superfast North Yorkshire (SFNY) project with Openreach.
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30
January
2018
| 09:00 Europe/Amsterdam
North Tyneside was praised today for playing a leading role in Great Britain achieving the target of 95 per cent superfast broadband coverage.
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29
January
2018
| 15:37 Europe/Amsterdam
Northern Lincs was praised today for playing a leading role in Great Britain achieving the target of 95 per cent superfast broadband coverage.
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29
January
2018
| 09:41 Europe/Amsterdam
Rutland was praised today for playing a leading role in Great Britain achieving the target of 95 per cent superfast broadband coverage.
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2017
18
December
2017
| 11:00 Europe/Amsterdam
Villagers in a remote Exmoor community are celebrating the arrival of superfast broadband after the completion of one of the most challenging local engineering projects of its kind in the South West in recent years.
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06
December
2017
| 09:00 Europe/Amsterdam
A rural community near Harrogate is the 200th in the UK to be upgraded to superfast, fibre broadband as a result of a partnership between local residents and Openreach, the business responsible for Britain’s largest phone and broadband
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29
November
2017
| 14:57 Europe/Amsterdam
More than 800 new homes and flats across major new housing developments in Bradford will be able to get some of the fastest broadband speeds in the UK following a deal between Openreach and housing developers.
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27
November
2017
| 09:59 Europe/Amsterdam
Competition to name Superfast Leicestershire’s new broadband hero has a winner
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21
November
2017
| 16:01 Europe/Amsterdam
Hundreds of homes in Yorkshire are set to see their broadband speeds soar thanks to a new partnership between housebuilder Redrow Homes and Openreach, Britain’s digital network business.
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21
November
2017
| 13:50 Europe/Amsterdam
Thousands of homes across the UK are set to see their broadband speeds soar thanks to a new partnership between developer Redrow Homes and Openreach, Britain’s digital network business.
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21
November
2017
| 13:45 Europe/Amsterdam
Hundreds of households in Devon are set to see their broadband speeds soar thanks to a new partnership between housebuilder Redrow Homes and Openreach, Britain’s digital network business.
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21
November
2017
| 11:00 Europe/Amsterdam
​Hundreds of homes in Leicestershire are set to see their broadband speeds soar thanks to a new partnership between housebuilder Redrow Homes and Openreach, Britain’s digital network business.
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14
November
2017
| 09:00 Europe/Amsterdam
Whorlton is the latest Teesdale community to be upgraded to high-speed fibre broadband thanks to the multi-million pound Digital Durham programme.
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26
October
2017
| 12:40 Europe/Amsterdam
A free event to help Northumberland businesses get to grips with broadband will be held next month by iNorthumberland.
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