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Openreach adds 551 Full Fibre locations

UK digital infrastructure provider Openreach has outlined plans to build ultrafast, ultra-reliable Full Fibre broadband to 551 further towns and cities – covering some 5 million homes and businesses – as part of its £15 billion (€12.56bn) programme to reach 25 million premises all over the UK. The company is making the new gigabit-capable technology […]

June 24, 2021By Colin Mann

Openreach plans 3m more Full Fibre premises

UK digital infrastructure provider Openreach has outlined plans to build ultrafast, ultra-reliable Full Fibre broadband to at least three million more homes and businesses in some of the nation’s hardest-to-serve communities – meaning fewer homes and businesses will require taxpayer subsidies to upgrade. The company’s updated build plan will be fundamental to the UK Government […]

May 28, 2021By Colin Mann

BT to ramp up FTTP build

Openreach, the wholly-owned, independent fixed access infrastructure arm of UK multiplay telco BT, says it is building Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) faster, at lower cost and higher quality than anyone else in the UK. In the last year, Openreach passed a record 2 million premises with FTTP. Openreach now believes that it has the capability to reach […]

May 13, 2021By Colin Mann

Openreach ramps up digital upgrade

As part of its programme to upgrade the UK’s analogue phone network to new digital products, network infrastructure provider Openreach has announced a further 77 exchange locations – covering around 700,000 homes and businesses – where it plans to stop selling copper-based services in 12 months’ time (coming into effect on April 29th, 2022). These are […]

May 11, 2021By Colin Mann

BT chose sport over speed and service

So, BT Sport is for sale. Or is looking for strategic partners, etc, etc – all code for “up for sale”. No real surprise. Does it ever work when telcos, or other technology driven organisations, try and run TV companies? Not often. Why did it get in to sport, or indeed TV of any kind? […]

April 30, 2021

Report: 1m Full Fibre UK jobs boost

Findings in a report conducted by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr) show that the nationwide rollout of Full Fibre broadband could bring up to a million people back into the UK workforce – helping get the economy back on track. Previous Cebr research, commissioned by digital infrastructure Openreach, suggested that as many […]

April 28, 2021By Colin Mann

ISPA UK adds 6 partners

The Internet Services Providers’ Association (ISPA UK) has announced its six annual partners for 2021: CityFibre – Full Fibre Infrastructure Partner EPS Global – Open Disaggregated Solutions Partner  Fibrain – Fibre Technologies Partner Netgem – TV & Smart WiFi Partner  Openreach – Infrastructure Partner Plume – CX & Smart WiFi Partner In a press statement, […]

April 27, 2021

Openreach, STL strategic partnership to build UK full-fibre network

STL, an integrator of digital networks, has announced a strategic collaboration with Openreach, the UK digital network business. Openreach has chosen STL as a key partner to provide optical cable solutions for its new, ultra-fast ‘Full Fibre’ broadband network. Under the partnership, STL will be responsible for delivering millions of kilometres of optical fibre cable […]

April 14, 2021

UK ministers welcome broadband jobs boom

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Digital Secretary Oliver Dowden have met with broadband industry leaders and praised the sector for creating more than 22,000 jobs over the last year as forecasts for gigabit rollout are revised further upwards. They welcomed the firms’ work to help the nation build back better from the pandemic with […]

April 6, 2021By Colin Mann

Openreach hits 4.5m full fibre premises target

UK digital infrastructure provider Openreach has hit its first target of making Full Fibre broadband technology available to 4.5 million premises across the UK by the end of March 2021, meaning millions of families, businesses and public sector organisations can now order ultrafast, ultra-reliable connectivity from a host of competing Communications Providers. Despite the huge […]

March 25, 2021By Colin Mann