News and BusinessOpenreach Northern Ireland (NI) has marked a significant milestone in its network build as its 200,000th customer has been connected to Ultrafast Full Fibre broadband. This milestone comes less than a year after Openreach NI announced it had connected its 100,000th customer to full fibre broadband in December 2021. Now, double the number of […]
News and BusinessThe UK could see a new wholesale fibre operator set up in direct competition to Openreach, BT’s wholesale fibre business, according to a report on the Financial Times website. It reports that Telefónica and Liberty Global, who jointly own Virgin Media O2, have held preliminary discussions with potential investors on the creation of a new […]
News and BusinessPrysmian Group has announced an extension to its partnership with Openreach, the UK’s largest digital network business, with a new three-year contract. Prysmian Group will support Openreach’s updated Full Fibre broadband build plan which will be fundamental to the UK Government achieving its target of delivering ‘gigabit capable broadband’ to 85% of the UK by […]
Case StudyRipley Tools has partnered with Openreach to create a bespoke tool to help the UK’s digital network provider meet its full-fibre broadband rollout objectives. Openreach is in the process of rolling out ultrafast full-fibre broadband across the nation. To do this quickly and safely, Openreach is recruiting 5000 new engineers during 2021 and evaluating its […]
News and BusinessBT spin-off Openreach is investing in CommScope to provide new technology as it ramps up its build of the Full Fibre network. As part of the Openreach collaboration, approximately 30-50 manufacturing engineers will be hired by CommScope in Rhyl, North Wales. They will assemble connectorised block terminals, the fibre connection point where individual fibres connect […]
News and BusinessDigital network integrator STL has announced a strategic collaboration with Openreach, the UK’s largest digital network business for the supply of optical cable solutions for a ‘Full Fibre’ broadband network. Under the agreement, STL will be responsible for delivering millions of kilometres of optical fibre cable to support the build over the next three years. […]
News and BusinessUK infrastructure company Openreach and Canadian test and monitoring specialist EXFO are to collaborate on a major initiative to accelerate full fibre deployment, and enhance the quality of build and experience for Openreach’s UK customers. Following a competitive tender process, Openreach has awarded EXFO a contract to supply optical test heads and test access switching […]
News and BusinessWarwick, UK-based Telent has been awarded a contract by Openreach to support a £12 billion project to bring full fibre broadband to millions of homes and businesses throughout the UK. Telent will build new infrastructure for Openreach in 12 cities and towns across the UK. Detailed planning activity is already under way and construction is […]
News and BusinessNokia today announced that Openreach will deploy its fibre solutions to help meet its target of bringing ultra-fast and reliable broadband access to 20 million homes across the UK by the mid-to-late 2020s. The fibre rollout with Nokia underpins Openreach’s commitment to build a world-class, secure broadband network that can deliver differentiated customer experiences and […]
News and BusinessBT spinoff Openreach has selected ADTRAN’s SDX Series of OLTs and Mosaic Cloud Platform as part of its project to pass 20 million UK homes and businesses by the mid-to-late 2020s with its full fibre network. Peter Bell, Network Technologies Director, Openreach said: “We’re already making our new ultrafast, ultra-reliable broadband network available to around […]
News and BusinessMicroCare Corporation recently announced that the Sticklers™ fibre optic cleaners have been approved for use by Openreach Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of BT Group. Openreach maintains the telephone and fibre cables that connect nearly all the homes and businesses in the United Kingdom to the national telephone and broadband network. Openreach field telecommunications engineers […]
Technologies and ProductsOpenreach has selected OFS to deliver products that enable gigabit optical networking deployment into existing buildings with an almost invisible fibre. This is part of Openreach’s announced rollout of faster, more reliable and future-proof Fibre-to-the-Premises broadband to reach 4 million premises by March 2021. A major part of this target is to deliver effectively to […]
News and BusinessWholesale colocation player Kao Data has installed two Openreach fibre spines offering data connectivity for its London ONE data centre customers. The Openreach EAD (Ethernet Access Direct) offering allows customers’ external sites a direct (point-to-point) connection to the data centre, delivering multiple high bandwidth connections to build and extend their networks. Openreach EAD is designed […]
News and BusinessUK network provider Openreach has launched the UK’s first high-bandwidth managed service that allows Communications Providers (CPs) to operate private data connections using ‘virtual dark fibre’. The service falls between the two stools of full access to dark fibre and a fully managed service. Its introduction follows last year’s failure by national regulator Ofcom to […]
News and BusinessFollowing a ruling last month by the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) that national regulator Ofcom had erred in an earlier attempt to oblige Openreach to further open up its dark fibre facilities to competitors, BT’s infrastructure organisation has now declared a moratorium on the launch of Dark Fibre Access (DFA). In a statement, Openreach […]
News and BusinessOpenreach, Britain’s digital network business, has called for greater industry and political collaboration to build a large-scale “full fibre” broadband network to help secure the future competitiveness of the UK for decades and strengthen its position as the leading digital economy in the G20. The company, which provides phone and broadband infrastructure to around 30 […]
News and Business* Openreach to be a legally separate company within BT with its own Board * Around 32,000 employees to transfer once pension arrangements are in place * Openreach Limited to have its own brand without the BT logo BT and Ofcom have reached agreement on a long-term regulatory settlement that will see Openreach become a […]
News and BusinessOn November 29, 2016, UK telecoms regulator Ofcom announced that it is proceeding with a formal notification to require the legal separation of Openreach from BT. This next step is in keeping with the proposals made in July 2016 in the event Ofcom was not able to secure a voluntary agreement with BT on the […]