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.
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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.
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Openreach is deploying Ciena’s Routing & Switching and WaveLogic solutions to increase network capacity and improve network performance for its customers.
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BT is looking for external parties to form joint ventures to expand the fibre network being built by its Openreach last-mile subsidiary.
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The number of UK households without an internet connection has almost halved in the year since the pandemic began.
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After the news that SSE Enterprise Telecoms had rebranded as Neos Networks at the end of March, Capacity caught up with Sarah Mills, Managing Director of Wholesale and Smart Infrastructure, to find out why the relaunch took place and how it ties into the company's ambitious network and product expansion plans.
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Openreach has named STL as its key partner to provide optical cable solutions for the UK's new, ultra-fast, full fibre broadband network.
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Openreach's full fibre broadband will be available to 4.5 million UK premises by next Wednesday.
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The UK government has announced a £5 billion infrastructure project that will connect "more than one million hard to reach homes and businesses" in the first phase.
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Fibre operators in the UK have welcomed today’s statement by the telecoms regulator, Ofcom, on its plans for the fixed wholesale market.
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BT Group shares saw a sharp rise following the 2021 Budget announcement from UK chancellor Rishi Sunak.
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Openreach is using Viavi's Optical Network Monitoring System (ONMSi) for its full fibre broadband deployment as its build programme reaches 42,000 premises every week.
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Telcos might give stable returns on long-term infrastructure, but stock markets don’t seem to like the industry, writes Alan Burkitt-Gray. That’s why private equity investors and pension funds are stepping in
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Openreach managing director of strategic infrastructure development Kim Mears has said that delivering full fibre to some of Wales’ most rural areas “may not be financially viable'.
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Community Fibre, Voneus and CommScope are just some of the network operators to have voiced concern about changes to the UK’s National Infrastructure Strategy.
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The sale of a stake in Openreach is potentially still on the table according to BT chief executive Philip Jansen.
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The UK regulator has changed the way it plans to calculate costs for duct-sharing, following an intervention from Openreach and its owner.
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After four years with Sunrise in Switzerland, Olaf Swantee is now heading a company with an ambitious target to fibre up London. Alan Burkitt-Gray asks him about his vision
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A UK thinktank has poured cold water on the British government’s aspirations to achieve nationwide gigabit broadband coverage by 2025.
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Italian operators have taken the first – and biggest – step to creating a single network delivering fibre to the home (FTTH), to be followed by a later merger to create a national wholesale-only fibre network.
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BT’s wholesale-only last-mile subsidiary Openreach says it has extended its fibre service to all 20,000 premises in the city of Salisbury in a 12-month building project.
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Openreach is to use Nokia’s GPON and XGS-PON fibre access technologies to deploy a next generation network it says has the potential to provide a £59 billion boost to UK productivity by 2025.
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Australian investor Macquarie and an unnamed sovereign wealth fund are talking to BT about taking an investment in Openreach, its last-mile fibre and copper company.
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Adtran has been chosen by Openreach to help develop its high-speed broadband network in the UK.
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Openreach has outlined its plans to build out full fibre to 227 market towns and villages across the UK within the next 14 months.
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Vodafone has reached a new commercial deal with Openreach to expand its Gigafast broadband roll-out to bring fibre services to more consumers and small businesses.
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Openreach has published its plan for 29 towns, cities and boroughs where it will be building out fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) over the next year and a half.
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Vodafone is taking legal action against Ofcom, the UK regulator, over its decision to allow Openreach to charge more for leased lines.
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Openreach, the UK’s wholesale last-mile company, says it will extend all-fibre broadband to 36 new locations, with work due to start over the next 12 months.
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The UK regulator has given Openreach, the BT subsidiary that runs last-mile copper and fibre in the UK, a “good but try harder” assessment.
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Ethiopia is to split its monopoly telecoms operator, Ethio Telecom, into a network company and a services company before the two units are privatised.
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Ofcom has announced that Openreach’s telegraph poles and underground tunnels will be opened up to rival firms to encourage them to develop high-speed lines for mobile and broadband networks and invest in full fibre and 5G.
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Openreach, BT’s wholesale last-mile subsidiary, has expanded its targets for directly connected fibre to 15 million UK buildings by the mid-2020s.
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A pension fund is set to take over KCOM, the UK city of Hull’s independent telecoms company.
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Jolie Hodson, currently customer director at New Zealand operator Spark, will be CEO from 1 July 2019.
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Rival shareholders in Telecom Italia – now TIM – are meeting today in Milan to decide the future of the troubled company.
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BT’s Openreach last-mile subsidiary says it doesn’t want to re-install copper connections to premises once it’s installed fibre.
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BT’s new CEO, Philip Jansen, takes over the CEO role on Friday, at the end of what could be a defining week for the troubled company.