Articles tagged with 'north west of england' | Openreach

Openreach, the UK’s digital network provider, has launched a nationwide ‘Community Connectors’ award programme to recognise people who’ve supported their neighbours during lockdown. The company is asking every MP in the North West, and the rest of …

Openreach today outlined plans to make ultra-reliable and gigabit-capable full fibre broadband available to homes and businesses in and around more than 20 market towns and villages across the North West. The new locations, including Kendal, …

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, with …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 downloadsUpgrade will future-proof homes and businesses for next generation …

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 …

 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 …

• 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 …

• 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 …

• 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 …

• 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 …

• 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 …

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