Openreach


BT Shelves Efforts To Find Investor To Share FTTP Build, Says Openreach Can Run Project Alone

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Oh and that company-wide cost-cutting programme is 18 months ahead of schedule BT has decided against bringing in an ex... Read more

Remember The Bloke Who Was Told By Zen Internet To Contact His MP About Crap Service? Yeah, It's Still Not Fixed

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Fear not! Issue is at the 'highest level of escalation,' says ISP A broadband customer from Leatherhead, Surrey, who wa... Read more

Why Won't You Copper-ate? Openreach Offers Capped Fibre Line Rental To Wholesalers In Bid To Shift All That FTTP

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Nation's broadband plumber increasingly desperate to ditch its copper network In an attempt to pull costly support from... Read more

Openreach To UK Businesses: Switch Is About To Hit The Fan. Prepare For Withdrawal Of The Copper-based Phone Network Now Or Risk Disruption

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PSTN to be axed in 2025 UK businesses must prepare for the retirement of the copper-based phone network that may cause ... Read more

Give Me A (tax) Break: UK Broadband Plumber Openreach To Almost Double The Number Of Rural Premises To Receive FTTP

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Amazing how being able to write off 130% of infrastructure deployment focuses minds BT-owned Openreach threw rural Brit... Read more

10.8 Million UK Homes Now Have Access To Gigabit-capable Broadband, With Much Of The Legwork Done By Virgin Media

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That's 37% of the country covered, and BT is expected to pick up the pace too A new Ofcom report shows the number of UK... Read more

Openreach Slaps Another 5 Million Premises On Top Of FTTP Connection Target, Expects To Pay 'minimal Tax In The UK' Over Next Few Years

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We'll hire 7,000 to get it done by 2026, says boss BT's Openreach has promised to bring FTTP connectivity to 25 million... Read more

On Eve Of National Industrial Ballot, BT, EE, Openreach Agree To Temporarily Suspend Compulsory Redundancies

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Well, the telco always said it's good to talk: Negotiations over jobs, pay, grading, and more set for this month Exclus... Read more

Copper Load Of This: Openreach Outlines 77 New Locations Where It'll Stop Selling Legacy Phone And Broadband Products

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You can't buy this kind of service. No, literally BT-owned infrastructure provider Openreach has confirmed plans to sto... Read more

Broadband Plumber Openreach Yanks Legacy Copper Phone Lines In Suffolk Town Of Mildenhall En Route To Getting The UK On VoIP

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Just four years to go before planned switch-off The tiny Suffolk town of Mildenhall is the second place where Openreach... Read more

Openreach Out And Hike Prices On Legacy Fixed-line Products: Broadband Plumber Pulls Trigger After Ofcom Gives The Nod

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BT Group arm says it'll 'encourage' switch to modern kit; ISP says consumers on legacy CAN'T switch Openreach has said ... Read more

Ofcom Says No Price Controls On Full-fibre Broadband Until 2031, Giving BT's Openreach The Kick To 'build Like Fury'

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Analyst: 'Ultimate winner is BT as it's avoided cost-based regulation for next half decade' UK comms regulator Ofcom ha... Read more

Communication Workers Union To Hold National Ballot For Members At BT, Openreach And EE Over Strike Action

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37 years later and former state-owned telco might be facing its own Black Monday For the first time since 1987, the Com... Read more

Day 5 Of Openreach Strikes: No Use Of Tech Company Toilets. No Water. Fresh Dates Outlined

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'No access to buildings' for striking Repayment Project engineers, confirms company Updated  Openreach’s Project Rep... Read more

Copper Broadband Phaseout Will Leave UK Customers With Higher Bills And Less Choice, Says Comparison Site

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It seems people are OK with paying more for faster internet, though Comparison site Compare Fibre reckons consumer choi... Read more

End Of The Landline: BT Aims To Move All UK Customers To VoIP By 2025

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BT is shutting its traditional telephone network in the UK, according to an email seen by The Register. The public swit... Read more