Press Release Openreach plans to shut down 80% of its UK exchanges, saying it will only need 1,000 ‘super digital exchanges’ to serve the entirety of the UK Openreach has exited the Deddington Exchange in Oxfordshire, making it the first of 4,600 exchanges across the...
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BT cuts 5,000 jobs as Openreach bleeds customers
BT has released its latest quarterly figures, revealing the extent of job cuts that have taken place over the first half of the financial year.
Openreach to use fibre sensing to detect nearby water leaks
The UK’s largest fibre network operator, Openreach, has announced a pair of trials with water companies and tech partners, aiming to use their network to quickly identify costly leaks.
Openreach call to UK business – “Unchain your network: The digital world won’t wait.”
Businesses and CPs urged to act on PSTN switch-off now or risk being left behind
Hyperoptic strikes deal with Openreach to offer broadband services to 1 million homes
Hyperoptic, the UK’s leading alternative full fibre ISP, has today announced it is set to extend availability of its award-winning services to an additional one million UK homes, via the Openreach network
Ipsum awarded Openreach street furniture contract
Leading engineering services specialist, Ipsum, has been appointed to a nationwide
contract for the maintenance and repair of street furniture.
Project Gigabit update: Openreach connects 38 rural communities
News Openreach has begun delivering full fibre broadband to homes and in some of the hardest to reach locations in the UK The rollout brings gigabit connectivity to areas that have been overlooked by commercial broadband investment, including villages such as Lacock...
Openreach passes half of Scottish properties with full fibre
Half of Scottish homes and businesses can now get connected to ultrafast, reliable broadband –thanks to Openreach investment in the nation’s new digital network.
Nokia and Openreach partner for fibre network automation
The project will see Nokia deploy a wide range of technology upgrades across Openreach’s network, aiming to boost efficiencies and simplify further fibre rollouts.
Openreach secures £289m in Project Gigabit contracts
The UK government has announced the latest tranche of Project Gigabit funding, with £289 million in contracts being won by Openreach to bring high-speed broadband to some of Britain’s most isolated areas under the ongoing Project Gigabit.
Openreach’s full fibre rollout to boost economy by £73bn in next decade – report
A new report commissioned by Openreach and produced by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) has outlined the value of ultrafast connectivity could deliver to the UK economy by 2034.
CityFibre needs additional funding to keep the pressure on Openreach
The UK’s largest altnet CityFibre has released its annual statement for the 2023 financial year this week, in which it warned that to continue operations as usual it will need to secure additional external funding.
AltNets’ path to success for FTTx Build Acceptance in Openreach PIA
The United Kingdom has seen a significant increase in FTTx deployment, rapidly expanding from 28% full fibre coverage in 2021 to 52% in 2023, with projections reaching 91% by 2026.
“Regulation is working”: The broadband market is more competitive than ever, says Openreach
At Connected Britain 2024, we spoke with Openreach’s chief commercial officer, Katie Milligan, to discuss the company’s latest Project Gigabit contracts, sustainability progress, and how Sky’s new deal with CityFibre will affect competition in the retail market.
Openreach CEO Clive Selley Urges UK Government to Cut Broadband Red Tape
Openreach’s newly appointed CEO, Clive Selley, has called on the UK government to reduce the regulatory barriers hindering broadband rollout. In a recent blog post, Selley highlighted that despite the Project Gigabit funding, which aims to extend gigabit-capable broadband to thousands more premises, nearly a million homes could miss out due to outdated planning rules.
Openreach wins new Project Gigabit contract to expand rural broadband
The UK government announced up to £800 million of funding to Openreach, to bring gigabit-capable broadband to 312,000 premises across the UK via Building Digital UK (BDUK). The initiative is part of ongoing efforts to improve digital infrastructure in rural areas.
Five UK altnets PIA Coalition to take on Openreach
Five UK altnets – nexfibre, AllPoints Fibre, Community Fibre, Gigaclear, and the newly merged Netomnia and Brsk – have established a new ‘PIA (Physical Infrastructure Access) Coalition’ to push for fairer access to physical infrastructure operated by Openreach.
Openreach identifies next 2.7m premises to receive FTTP
Broadband infrastructure provider Openreach has announced its plan to deploy full fibre broadband to 517 additional locations in the UK, bringing fibre-to-the-premise (FTTP) to 2.7 million more homes and businesses.
Openreach leans on Labour party to remove broadband roadblocks for MDUs
According to a report from the Financial Times, the UK’s largest broadband provider Openreach has held talks with the Labour party asking them to commit to legislation that would make it easier to deploy fibre broadband infrastructure in blocks of flats and other MDUs.
Openreach’s Catherine Colloms on sustainable competition in the UK telecoms market
Interview On Day One of this year’s Connected Britain conference, we had the pleasure of speaking with Catherine Colloms, Director of Corporate Affairs and Brand at Openreach, to discuss creating a competitive UK fibre market and the UK’s rollout journey so far. One...
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