Articles tagged with 'west midlands' | Openreach

An increase in abuse directed at Openreach engineers, largely due to a mistaken belief they’re working on 5G, is hampering essential work to keep the Midlands connected. Openreach is the UK’s largest phone and broadband network – used by customers...

It seems scarcely believable that just a month ago, towns and cities across the West Midlands were packed with shoppers and workers going about their daily business. Life was as close to what used to pass for normal.  But since then, everything ha...

Openreach today outlined plans to make ultrafast, ultra-reliable and future-proof broadband available in 9 market towns and villages across the West Midlands. It’s part of a bigger announcement involving 227[1] ‘harder to reach’ areas across the U...

Kasam Hussain is Openreach’s new Partnership Director covering the Midlands, strengthening relationships between the UK’s largest telephone and broadband network and local stakeholders. He’ll be working closely with policymakers, council represent...

Staffordshire residents are being urged to get connected to faster broadband in 2020 and improve their access to a broad range of services and opportunities. Faster broadband helps you do more online, and the festive period is a great time to thin...

Openreach is getting 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 ye...

Building a nationwide full fibre network is the second-largest infrastructure project in the UK, requiring a physical build to more than 30 million front doors ...

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 Birmi...

More Staffordshire residents are being urged to get connected to superfast broadband, now that most of the county is able to access the technology....

More than 180 trainee engineers will be hired across the West Midlands, as part of a huge recruitment drive announced (Monday 28 January 2019) by Openreach....

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....

​A high-speed fibre broadband connection is one of the key factors people consider when buying or renting a property, according to a Staffordshire estate agent....

Coventry has 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....

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, ...

​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....

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 West Midlands as Openreach gets ready to make its new network available to more than 34,000 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...

Openreach's chief executive, Clive Selley, outlined his broadband ambitions for Birmingham during a visit to the city where he updated local civic and other leaders on the roll-out of ultrafast broadband, including West Midlands Mayor, Andy Street an...

Superfast Telford - the partnership between Telford & Wrekin Council, co-funding network partner Openreach and the Government's Broadband Delivery UK has reached its target of making superfast broadband available to 98 per cent of borough's homes and...

The Cannock Chase district of Staffordshire now has more than 99 per cent fibre coverage as a result of the Superfast Staffordshire partnership - led by Staffordshire County Council and Openreach, as part of the Government's BDUK programme - when com...

Birmingham, Brownhills, Castle Bromwich, Dudley, Hampton-in-Arden, Penn, Sheldon and Wolverhampton are among the locations to benefit from Openreach's largest ever recruitment drive. The 3,500 new engineers across the UK will help deliver ultrafast F...

Stafford, Kinver and Abbots Bromley are among the locations to benefit from Openreach's biggest ever recruitment drive. It's also to invest £100,000 equipping a new fibre engineering academy at its Yarnfield Park training centre. The new engineers wi...

Coventry, Dunchurch, Polesworth and Stratford-upon-Avon among the locations to benefit from Openreach's biggest ever recruitment drive, which has been welcomed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The 3,500 new engineers across the UK will help delive...

Birmingham, Bridgnorth, Coventry, Dudley, Hereford, Kidderminster, Stafford, Stourport, Stratford-upon-Avon, Tern Hill, Wolverhampton and Worcester are among the locations to benefit from Openreach's biggest ever recruitment drive. Openreach is also ...

Bosbury, Hereford, Kingsland and Wormbridge are among the locations to benefit from Openreach's biggest ever recruitment drive, which has been welcomed by the Chancellor of Exchequer. The business is taking on 3,500 new engineers across the UK to hel...

Bosbury, Bromsgrove, Hereford, Inkberrow, Kidderminster, Kingsland, Severn Stoke, Stourport, Worcester and Wormbridge among the locations to benefit from Openreach's biggest ever recruitment drive. The 3,500 new engineers across the UK will help deli...

Bridgnorth, Bromfield, Donnington, Longville and Tern Hill are among locations to benefit from Openreach's biggest ever recruitment drive. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, welcomed news Openreach is taking on 3,500 new engineers in the UK...

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...