Neowin News Feed for: Openreach

More organisations join UK telecoms to increase number of women in senior tech roles

Paul Hill — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 14:06:01 +0000

More organisations have signed Ofcom's pledge to bring more women into senior tech roles. The pledge was originally signed by telecom companies from the UK in June but more have just signed. Read more...

Old TV in Welsh village behind broadband outages

Paul Hill — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 12:16:01 +0000

An old second-hand TV has been emitting an electrical signal in a village in Wales knocking surrounding broadband connections offline. It took Openreach engineers 18 months to discover the cause. Read more...

Nokia and Openreach to deliver ultra-fast broadband in the UK

Paul Hill — Thu, 21 May 2020 14:52:02 +0000

Nokia has said that it will supply hardware to Openreach to help it deliver its ultra-fast broadband network in the UK. The network is expected to connect 20 million homes by the mid-to-late 2020s. Read more...

UK: Broadband firms will deal with Covid-19 stress

Paul Hill — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 16:12:02 +0000

As more people begin working from home the UK's broadband and mobile companies have said they'll be able to handle the increased demand from teleconferencing, gaming, and TV streaming. Read more...

Openreach to deploy its "ultra-fast" Gfast network in 81 more locations

João Carrasqueira — Mon, 26 Nov 2018 18:44:01 +0000

Openreach has announced that it will be deploying its Gfast network to 81 new locations around the UK, offering speeds of up to 330Mbps without the need for a completely new infrastructure. Read more...

Openreach to cut broadband wholesale prices, hopefully bringing customer bills down

Paul Hill — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 14:10:01 +0000

Openreach, which owns most of the UK's telecom infrastructure, has announced a drop in the price of wholesale broadband. The news should enable ISPs to sell faster internet at a lower cost. Read more...

Years of slow internet lead villagers to burn an effigy of a van

Richard Tyr Blewitt — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 20:30:02 +0000

The residents of Templeton, England, had been promised a fiber connection three years ago. However, Openreach has failed to give them a faster connection so they burned a van effigy on Bonfire Night. Read more...

BT liable for £22m in interest to competitors in latest appeal to 2012 overcharging case

Boyd Chan — Fri, 05 May 2017 10:16:01 +0000

After having been ordered by Ofcom to pay £95m to rivals in late 2012 for backhaul overcharging, BT has failed in its latest attempt to avoid having to pay up. However, the saga may not yet be over. Read more...

BT cops £42m fine for underpaying compensation to rivals for delayed Ethernet installations

Boyd Chan — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 07:32:01 +0000

Just a fortnight after it had been spun out into its own company, BT's Openreach has received a record £42 million fine over Ethernet installation delays and shortchanging its rivals due compensation. Read more...

BT to spin out its network division into a separate company; stops short of full split

Boyd Chan — Sun, 12 Mar 2017 09:52:01 +0000

After pressure from industry competitors and a report released by telecom regulator, Ofcom, BT has agreed to splice out Openreach into a new company which will remain as a subsidiary of the BT Group. Read more...

British regulator Ofcom tells BT to open up network for use by rivals

Chris Dupres — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 11:54:01 +0000

British telecommunications giant BT told in a report by regulator Ofcom that it must open up its OpenReach network to rival providers in order to improve internet speeds and reliability. Read more...

BT's £12.5bn acquisition of EE cleared by Competition and Markets Authority

Andy Weir — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 11:40:01 +0000

BT, the UK's largest provider of fixed-line telephony and broadband, is set to acquire EE, the country's biggest mobile network, after the deal was cleared by the Competition and Markets Authority. Read more...