UK digital infrastructure provider Openreach is claiming to have bucked the prevailing economic trend by creating 5,300 new UK-based engineering jobs, to be filled during 2021. The new roles, located in communities throughout the country, will enable the company to continue improving service levels across its existing networks, whilst building and connecting customers to its […]
UK comms regulator Ofcom has published its annual monitoring report on the progress towards delivering a more independent Openreach, the digital infrastructure subsidiary of dominant telco BT. In 2017, BT notified Ofcom of its voluntary commitments to reform Openreach. This included Openreach becoming a legally separate entity with its own board, management and staff. In […]
UK digital network infrastructure provider Openreach is announcing a further 51 exchange locations across the UK, covering around 0.51 million premises, where it is planning to stop selling its legacy analogue services and instead focus on providing people with a modern, futureproof Full Fibre connection. This brings the total number of exchange locations where it […]
UK digital infrastructure provider Openreach has announced a further 67 locations in its Fibre Cities programme where it will be building its new, future-proof Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband technology, as part of a new tranche of build. Work will begin in March 2021. The new locations stretch across the nation – from Alloway, in Ayrshire; to […]
BT has reported Q1 revenue of £5.24 billion (€5.8bn), down 7 per cent primarily due to the impact of Covid-19, including reduced BT Sport revenue and a reduction in business activity in its enterprise units. Adjusted EBITDA was £1.81 billion, down 7 per cent, driven by the fall in revenue and continued investment in customer […]
UK digital network infrastructure provider Openreach has outlined plans to make ultra-reliable and gigabit-capable FTTP broadband available to more than three million homes and businesses in some of the UK’s hardest to serve communities. This follows a new consultation from industry regulator Ofcom where it proposes that such a build commitment from Openreach is sufficient […]
Global spending on broadband access equipment and CPE is expected to drop 7 per cent in 2020, dipping to $11.4 billion, before increasing 5 per cent in 2021 according to market research firm Dell’Oro Group. Their forecast from January 2020 anticipated a 5 per cent decline in total revenue in 2020. Dell’Oro Group has, however, […]
UK digital infrastructure provider Openreach, who builds and maintains the largest fixed communications network in Northern Ireland (NI), has reached a significant milestone, with 360,000 homes and businesses – more than 40 per cent of properties – now able to access Full Fibre broadband at speeds of up to 1 Gbps. The milestone achievement comes […]
Openreach has completed what they claim is the fastest city-wide network build in the UK – making ’Full Fibre’ broadband available to more than 20,000 premises in just under 12-months, starting in March 2019 and finishing in March 2020. Plans to announce the completion in March were postponed in light of the pandemic. Clive Selley, […]