Openreach closes first exchange in PSTN switchoff milestone
Press Release Openreach plans to shut down 80% of its UK exchanges, saying it will only need 1,000...
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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.
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Are you lagging on the PSTN switch-off?
The Public Switched Telephone Network will be switched off on 31st January 2027 in favour of internet-based (All-IP) networks. Even though this deadline is fast approaching, many businesses are still resistant to the move.
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UK fibre rollout nears 80% as overbuild rises and competition shifts
Independent industry data shows FTTP coverage at about 77.8% of UK premises in Q2 2025 (roughly 26m), with Openreach and altnets driving rapid expansion, rising overbuild and a shift from copper to fibre that is reshaping competition and policy priorities.
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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.
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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
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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...
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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.
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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.
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BT bags £105m from old copper cables in new recycling deal
BT has secured £105 million from the sale of its surplus copper cables, according to a Guardian article published today. The deal with global recycler EMR (European Metal Recycling) involves selling copper granules from the 3,300 tonnes of copper cables that BT has already removed in its journey to upgrade the nation’s infrastructure to full fibre.
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“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.
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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.
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Old copper networks: A gold mine for telcos?
A report from engineering firm TXO says that over $7 billion-worth of unused copper cabling could be recovered in the next decade
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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.
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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.
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BT wins £26m contract to connect UK schools
British incumbent BT has secured £26 million of government funding to provide hundreds of primary schools with gigabit broadband, as part of the UK government’s ‘Project Gigabit’ scheme.
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VMO2 prepares to spin off fixed network business
VMO2 is preparing to spin off its fixed broadband network into a fully owned wholesale subsidiary NetCo.
The move will open up VMO2’s broadband networks, which currently provide cable and fibre broadband services to 16 million homes, to wholesale for the first time, giving ISPs looking for scale an additional option beyond Openreach.
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UK altnets to band together for infrastructure sharing
News Independent Network Cooperative Association (INCA) has set up the group, encouraging altnets...
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Journey to a more connected North: UK connectivity roundup January 2024
A selection of the most important connectivity stories relating to the North of the UK, with expert guest commentary provided by Iqbal Bedi, Founder & Consulting Director at Intelligens Consulting
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Are “lazy” broadband engineers to blame for UK cyber-attacks?
A report from the Telegraph suggests that UK hospitals and banks are more likely to be exposed to cyber-attacks because of “lazy” broadband engineers failing to complete paperwork. According to the article, the engineers are failing to disclose “when and where they are working on BT’s network”, leaving BT’s client companies unable to see who is accessing their critical network infrastructure.
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