Openreach

Openreach hacks full-fibre broadband prices for developers... Property developers, that is

Sorry, programmers. No bowel-moving discounts for you

Networks26 Oct 2018 | 25

UK's Openreach sends full fibre to Coventry

Slow your roll... only Radford's hooked up for now

Networks03 Oct 2018 | 26

Openreach annual review: Eat fibre and be merry, we fixed the faults before you called

The sun is sunny and the dark fibre access is virtual

Networks27 Jul 2018 | 14

East Midlands network-sniffer wails: Openreach, fix my outage-ridden line

UK techie's tests reveal half-dozen daily fails, infrastructure bods vow to look into it

Legal11 Jul 2018 | 89

Openreach consults on shift of 16 MEEELLION phone lines to VoIP by 2025

Eat your fibre, it's good for you!

Legal15 May 2018 | 88

There will be blood: BT to axe 13,000 employees

Plans evacuate HQ out of London after 144 years

On-Prem10 May 2018 | 106

Openreach and BT better watch out for... CityFibre after surprise £537m takeover deal

Director Mark Collins on becoming a key challenger in full fibre

Legal27 Apr 2018 | 27

BT pushes ahead with plans to switch off telephone network

Consultation next month following plan to shift Brits over to VoIP

Networks19 Apr 2018 | 194

Small UK firms laying fibre put BT's Openreach to shame – report

But former state monopoly still the biggest single investor

Networks13 Apr 2018 | 30

Openreach hiring thousands more engineers

But will that prevent another burning effigy?

Networks15 Mar 2018 | 37

UK's BT: Ofcom's wholesale superfast broadband price slash will hurt bottom line

Part of plans to boost country's woeful full-fibre investment

Networks23 Feb 2018 | 43

Openreach ups investment plans: Will shoot out full fibre to 3 million premises

Beginning of the end for copper?

Networks01 Feb 2018 | 66

Well done, UK.gov. You hit superfast broadband target (by handing almost the entire project to BT)

95% of UK penetrated = feat of engineering, hoots Openreach

Networks29 Jan 2018 | 118

Someone tell Thorpe Lane in Suffolk their internet sucks – they're still loading the page

Suffering residents have an 8-hour wait for 45 minutes of telly

Networks08 Dec 2017 | 85

Ofcom just told BT to up its game on fibre investment

Comment But is it just more regulatory posturing?

Legal04 Dec 2017 | 48

Dark fibre arts: Ofcom is determined to open up BT's network

Analysis But will it make a difference?

Networks24 Nov 2017 | 59

Digital minister: We're still talking to BT about sorting crap broadband

Matt Hancock blissfully unaware that deal is on brink of collapse

Networks21 Nov 2017 | 48

BT plots to slash pension benefits for 32,000 staff

Gotta plug that £14bn deficit somehow

Networks14 Nov 2017 | 59

Openreach fibre plan for 10m premises coming 'before Christmas'

Chair says he needs to kill copper network, maybe build 5G backhaul too

Networks13 Nov 2017 | 69

Openreach boss says he'd take a burning effigy on the chin

Interview Clive Selley admits BT could have done more to build a fibre network

Networks09 Nov 2017 | 34

Guy Glitchy: Villagers torch Openreach effigy

Huh! More like 'won't reach'

Bootnotes06 Nov 2017 | 92

Openreach: Comms providers 'welcome' our full-fibre 'ambition'

Duh. It's better than sweating the heck out of copper and aluminium for another decade

Networks01 Nov 2017 | 24

Openreach offers duct-off providers 'OSA Filter' instead of Dark Fibre Access

Part of the opening of the network

Networks18 Oct 2017 | 11

Grant Shapps of coup shame fame stands by 'broadbad' research

Interview Or was it David Green or Sebastian Fox?

Networks16 Oct 2017 | 49

You may not have noticed, but 'superfast' broadband is available to 94% of Blighty

Fivemiletown, Northern Ireland, ambles at a stately 1.2Mbps

Networks09 Oct 2017 | 68

Openreach pegs full fibre overhaul anywhere between £3bn and £6bn

And it'll cost consumers an extra £7 per head a month

On-Prem07 Aug 2017 | 66

Ofcom lifts sword, eyes up BT's duct and pole rental costs

With a knick knack, piggyback, throw broadband folks a bone

Legal01 Aug 2017 | 36

UK.gov to trial vouchers for 'gigabit-capable' connectivity with SMEs

Wants to hand out £40m from £200m full-fibre investment pot

Legal01 Aug 2017 | 10

Openreach asks UK what it thinks about 10 million 'full fibre' connections

Friendly near-monopoly wants to work with industry, honest

Networks18 Jul 2017 | 58

Ofcom creates watchdog specifically to make sure Openreach is behaving

'We're watching you,' warns regulator

Networks13 Jul 2017 | 24

Openreach kicks off 'rebrand' by painting over BT logo on vans

Full transition to take four years

Networks11 Jul 2017 | 60

Openreach to comms providers: Why can't we be friends?

Reformed monopoly wants to 'get much closer' to partners

Networks15 Jun 2017 | 13

Oh snap! Election's made Brexit uncertainty worse for biz, says BT CEO

'If it was unstable and uncertain this time last week, it’s gone up a notch'

Legal13 Jun 2017 | 50

Openreach hints at fibre network strategy rethink

Analysis Chief exec says 'significant chunk' of job cuts to come from Global Services

On-Prem11 May 2017 | 15

BT to axe 4,000 jobs across the globe

Profit plunges 19 per cent on back of 'challenging' year

On-Prem11 May 2017 | 22

Ofcom chisels away at BT Openreach's cold, dead hands

We WILL make you open up infrastructure access, vows regulator

Networks20 Apr 2017 | 31

Ofcom pressuring BT to slash wholesale prices for superfast broadband

Charges for 40Mbps packages to be cut by 40 per cent

Legal31 Mar 2017 | 35

BT's Openreach to hire 1,500 engineers

Follows legal separation from Openreach last week

On-Prem16 Mar 2017 | 41

Thank heavens the wrangling over BT's Openreach separation has ended

Analysis Might not be everyone's best option, but at least we're not going to Brussels

Legal13 Mar 2017 | 33

BT agrees to legal separation of Openreach

'We have listened to criticism of our business,' says chief exec Gavin Patterson

Legal10 Mar 2017 | 82

Openreach reshuffles top brass, brings in BT bods to make biz more independent of BT

Errr... does that work?

On-Prem10 Feb 2017 | 21

Openreach appoints former TUC head to independent board

Brendan Barber appointment part of BT's plans to rebuild 'credibility'

Legal01 Feb 2017 | 8

BT's profits plunge 37% following Italian Job

£530m accounting scandal takes a chunk out of profits

On-Prem27 Jan 2017 | 16

Citizens Advice slams 'unfair' broadband compensation scheme

Suppliers get automatic recompense, punters get nowt

Legal05 Dec 2016 | 31

Ofcom to force a legal separation of Openreach

Regulator 'disappointed' in BT's own voluntary proposals

Legal29 Nov 2016 | 111

Surprise, surprise. BT the only Universal Service Obligation provider in town

Ofcom also hints at deadlock with former monopoly regarding legal separation

Legal23 Nov 2016 | 31

Openreach split could damage broadband investment, says BT's chief exec

How interesting that you'd say that, Gavin

Channel19 Oct 2016 | 55

Boost Ofcom's powers and fix mobile market woes, Three and TalkTalk tell MPs

Funnily enough, BT really doesn't agree

Channel11 Oct 2016 | 13

BT tops Ofcom's broadband whinge list

Virgin and Sky rated least moaned about

Channel28 Sep 2016 | 24

Watch out, Openreach: CityFibre swallows Redcentric's network for £5m

Upstart reckons it's positioned to take on BT

Channel26 Sep 2016 | 12

BT Openreach boss wants you to know that deep down, they care

Here's a webpage of infographics. Now stop whinging, peons

Networks22 Sep 2016 | 42

Really – 80% FTTP in UK by 2026? Woah, ambitious!

INCA people warn govt it's falling behind on fibre comms civilisation

Networks08 Sep 2016 | 40

Ofcom: Legal separation will force Openreach to eat more fibre

Plans for 2 million FTTP connections in next four years 'not enough'

Channel26 Jul 2016 | 35

Openreach to split from BT... so they'll be 'Legally Separate'

...kind of (c'mon – you didn't think it would go all the way!)

Channel26 Jul 2016 | 36

Not-BT-Openreach' biz CityFibre sextuples pipeline

Seems to be doing a roaring trade

Channel25 Jul 2016 |

Ofcom should push for fibre – Ex BT CTO

'Aiming for mediocre speeds is such a British attitude'

Networks25 Jul 2016 | 53