24/06/2021 For information
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Openreach is announcing 551 more towns and cities in our FTTP build plan
We’re pleased to announce today, 24 June 2021, our plans to build ultrafast, ultra-reliable Full Fibre FTTP to 551 more towns and cities – covering some five million homes and businesses – as part of our £15 billion programme to reach 25 million premises all over the UK.
This news follows our announcement last month that we will target more than six million rural and hard-to-reach homes and businesses across the UK. These latest urban locations stretch from Bournemouth, in Dorset, Dunfermline, in Scotland, Kettering, in the East Midlands, to Sunderland in the North East, and Wrexham, in Wales.
The build will take place between now and December 2026, with work in these latest locations starting later this year.
Clive Selley, Openreach CEO, said: “Nobody’s building Full Fibre faster, further or at a higher quality than Openreach in the UK. Our engineers and build partners are working flat-out to deliver this life-changing technology to rural, urban and suburban communities all over the country and we’re delighted to be fleshing out our plans with more details about where and when we’ll be building.
“More than a million customers are already enjoying our most revolutionary and reliable broadband ever. It’s the next generation of internet that’s ready for anything.”
Openreach is making the new gigabit-capable technology available to 43k premises every week, and more than five million homes and businesses can now place an order.
Overall, more than 2,400 towns, cities, boroughs, villages and hamlets have so-far been included in our Fibre First programme – and the build is fundamental to the UK Government achieving its target of delivering ‘gigabit capable broadband’ to 85 per cent of the UK by 2025.
Full details of the announcement can be found on the Openreach news pages on our website.
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