Openreach
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Openreach, the UK last-mile company owned by BT, has made full fibre connections available to its 10 millionth home. -
The next two months are “critical” for the UK’s fibre access network sector according to David Hilliard, CEO of Mentor Europe.
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The owner of four of the UK’s smaller fibre operators are merging their operations in the face of rising competition.
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Toshiba’s Andrew Shields is looking at teleportation as a way of moving quantum-protected information. He tells Alan Burkitt-Gray the facts behind this ‘spooky’ piece of physics
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CityFibre, which raised £4.9 billion in debt last month, has increased the speed of its planned direct fibre network to 10Gbps, and possibly 25Gbps.
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The UK’s biggest broadband and mobile operators have made a range of commitments to help customers with the rising cost of living crisis.
Forthcoming events
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UK operator CityFibre has enough money to connect eight million homes to fibre, the company said after raising £4.9 billion debt.
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Openreach, the last mile fibre and copper operation owned by BT, has made Jenni Macfarlane its service delivery director for Scotland.
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Openreach, the last-mile fibre and copper operator in the UK, is allowing some service providers to take over its installation role.
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Capacity shares 5 key stories to watch from around the world today.
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TalkTalk has promoted Ruth Kennedy to be head of sales at its wholesale division. At the same time Richard Thompson, former managing director of wholesale, has left the company.
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Openreach has signed up to the COP26 Transport Declaration, committing to transition to 100% zero emission cars and vans by 2030.
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Vodafone is claiming that a new deal with CityFibre will make it the biggest full fibre provider in the UK.
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Across the UK, local ventures – some funded by private equity, others by the community – are in a race with BT’s Openreach unit to connect rural homes to full fibre broadband. by Alan Burkitt-Gray
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Prysmian Group has extended its partnership with Openreach, with a new three-year contract.
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Geo data company Fugro, has completed the offshore fieldwork phase for the subsea fibre project that will see 16 new cables connect Scotland.
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Openreach and Nokia are trialling the UK’s first ever Full Fibre technology, which could deliver ultra-reliable broadband services, 10 times faster than existing UK standards.
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Openreach has made a four-point pledge to its wholesale customers, offering "long-term price certainty" on access to its growing fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) network.
