May 8, 2013
George Osborne hails Cheshire’s broadband revolution
A £29 million project between BT and four Cheshire councils which will provide access to high-speed fibre broadband to 96 per cent of the county’s population has been praised by local MP George Osborne.
May 8, 2013
iNorthumberland programme to boost broadband speeds across England’s most sparsely populated county
Northumberland County Council and BT have announced an £18.9 million pound deal to roll-out high-speed fibre broadband to 95 per cent of homes and businesses in the county.
April 19, 2013
No missing out on fibre broadband for Binfield Heath’s determined residents
Residents of Binfield Heath in Oxfordshire are bracing themselves for a fabulous fibre future following an agreement signed between their local Parish Council and BT to upgrade the broadband network.
April 11, 2013
UK’s largest wholesale fibre network continues to expand
BT has confirmed that it’s fibre broadband network has now passed more than fifteen million premises, with the result that more than half of UK homes and businesses can now access much faster connection speeds.
April 3, 2013
New age of communications beckons for Highlands and Islands
A £146 million investment project to deliver high speed fibre broadband across the Highlands and Islands is being hailed as the UK’s most complex and challenging broadband project ever.
April 3, 2013
Kensington and Chelsea residents set for fabulous fibre future
People living in Kensington and Chelsea can look forward to having greater access to the latest generation of fibre broadband services thanks to an agreement reached between Openreach and the the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
April 3, 2013
Shropshire council signs £24.6 million deal to bring faster broadband ‘evolution’
More than 90 per cent of Shropshire homes and businesses will benefit from the availability of high-speed fibre broadband within the next three years as a result of a multi-million partnership project between Shropshire Council and BT.
March 25, 2013
Hampshire heads for broadband fast lane
More than 57,000 homes and business premises across Hampshire will benefit from superfast broadband following a £13.8 million deal signed between Hampshire County Council and BT.
March 25, 2013
Northamptonshire set for superfast broadband.
Homes and businesses in Northamptonshire are poised to benefit from access to world-class fibre broadband speeds thanks to the signing of a deal between BT and Northampton County Council.
March 25, 2013
Broadband partnership will help ‘Make Kent Quicker’
One of the biggest infrastructure projects in Kent’s history will begin this year following a deal between BT and Kent County Council.
March 25, 2013
Lincolnshire prepares for fibre broadband boost
Lincolnshire County Council and BT have revealed details for the planned roll-out of superfast broadband across the county.
March 15, 2013
Cornwall’s fibre footprint to expand to 95 per cent of county thanks to breakthrough by Openreach
Ninety five per cent of homes and businesses in Cornwall are set to benefit from fibre broadband, according to those running Superfast Cornwall programme.
March 13, 2013
Recycling under-sea cables delivers fibre broadband to the Isles of Scilly
BT is to recycle redundant sub-sea fibre optic cables to ensure that residents on the Isle of Scilly have access to the company’s world-class broadband network.
March 13, 2013
PM gives thumbs up to BT’s plans to hire a further 1,000 fibre engineers
Prime minister David Cameron has welcomed BT’s decision to hire more than 1,000 extra engineers to install fibre broadband in people’s homes and businesses.
February 6, 2013
Devon and Somerset sign up to fibre project
Devon and Somerset have signed a £94 million project that will see BT roll-out its fibre network to more than 90 per cent of homes and businesses by the end of 2016.
February 5, 2013
BT’s fibre network now passes more than 13 million homes and businesses
The roll-out of BT’s fibre broadband network continues to gather pace after it was announced that it now passes more than 13 million homes and business in the UK.
February 5, 2013
Wiltshire and South Gloucestershire chose BT to secure fibre future
Wiltshire and South Gloucestershire have become the latest counties to announce that they are teaming up with BT to help extend the deployment of fibre.
January 17, 2013
Oxfordshire villagers take novel approach to get fibre
Residents in an Oxfordshire village have agreed to club together to help pay for fibre to be rolled out in their community.
December 24, 2012
Norfolk next in line for fibre upgrade
A multimillion-pound contract between Norfolk County Council and BT aims to nearly double the number of Norfolk homes and businesses able to access fibre broadband within three years, has been announced.
December 24, 2012
Suffolk gets set for fibre
More than nine in 10 homes and businesses in Suffolk are set to have access to fibre broadband by the end of 2015 following an agreement between the county council and BT.
December 19, 2012
Herefordshire and Gloucestershire make joint bid to get fibre
Herefordshire and Gloucestershire have created a broadband first by becoming the first counties to launch a joint bid to bring fibre to rural areas.
December 10, 2012
Village people are fibre pioneers
A small village in Oxfordshire is making history by becoming the first community in the UK to have its copper telephone wires replaced entirely by fibre optic cables.
December 6, 2012
BT to cut wholesale FTTP costs
BT is to slash the wholesale rental price of its ultra-fast 330Mbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) service by 37 per cent by next summer.
November 22, 2012
BT welcomes EC decision for BDUK funding go-ahead
The European Commission (EC) has given the green light for state aid to be used to help roll-out next generation broadband across the UK.
November 19, 2012
Lightweight overhead fibre
The roll-out of superfast fibre broadband in Cornwall has challenged BT to develop a lightweight overhead fibre cable for use on traditional telephone poles.
November 19, 2012
BT demos ‘future-proofed’ xGPON in Cornwall
BT has set up a demonstration of 10Gbps broadband at an engineering firm in Cornwall as part of the fibre broadband roll-out to the county.
November 7, 2012
Fibre broadband helps revolutionise family life
The arrival of fibre broadband can be an exciting event for any community. Just ask Trefor Davies from Lincoln.
October 24, 2012
BT recruits more ex-servicemen for fibre deployment
As many as 250 engineers are to be recruited from the Armed Forces to help Openreach continue the roll-out of fibre across the UK.
October 03, 2012
“Superfast North Yorkshire” takes giant stride forwards in fibre roll-out
There were celebrations in Amotherby and Ainderby Steeple at the weekend after they were named as the first two communities to benefit from the multi-million pound “Superfast North Yorkshire” project.
September 14, 2012
Surrey to become ‘best connected’ county in the UK
Nearly 100% of Surrey businesses and homes are to have access to fibre broadband by the end of 2014 following a landmark agreement between the county council and BT.
September 7, 2012
Film-maker credits fibre broadband for business transformation
An award-winning film-maker from Truro, Cornwall, has spoken of the improvements fibre broadband has made to his company.
August 1, 2012
Digital Rutland – the movie!
Watch a video of the contract signing between Rutland County Council and BT – and see what it means to the county, local people and employers.
July 31, 2012
Cornwall celebrates 10,000th fibre broadband customer
An electronics manufacturer in Truro has become the 10,000th Cornish customer to plug in to fibre optic broadband that is being rolled out across the county by BT.
July 24, 2012
Wales chooses BT to help it become fibre broadband leader
Wales is set to become a global leader in fibre broadband as the result of an ambitious project announced by the Welsh Government and BT.
July 20, 2012
Nine in ten homes and businesses in North Yorkshire to get fibre broadband
North Yorkshire - England’s largest rural county - has won the race to be the first county to deploy fibre broadband using Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) funds.
June 28, 2012
Openreach announces 98 new fibre locations
Nearly 800,000 homes and businesses are to have access to high speed broadband after Openreach announced 98 new exchange areas to be enabled as part of BT’s £2.5bn investment in fibre.
June 28, 2012
Eight sites named for FTTP on demand pilot
Openreach - BT’s local network division – has revealed eight locations where it will pilot the delivery of fibre to the premises (FTTP) on demand.
June 6, 2012
Superfast Cornwall labs will build Cornwall’s reputation as a leader in innovation
Villages in Cornwall – where BT is rolling out superfast broadband as part of a partnership with the local authority - are pioneering new technologies to help benefit the local community.
May 21, 2012
England’s most rural county crowned ‘Digital Rutland’
Rutland has become the latest local authority to work in partnership with BT to roll-out fast, affordable fibre broadband across the county.
May 14, 2012
BT fibre whizzes past 10m milestone
The roll-out of BT’s fibre broadband network is months ahead of schedule after the company announced today that it’s now available to ten million homes and businesses.
April 17, 2012
BT creates 150 full-time fibre broadband jobs
One hundred and fifty new engineering jobs are to be created thanks to BT’s ongoing investment in fibre broadband.
April 13, 2012
Fibre broadband speeds just got a whole lot quicker
Broadband speeds in the UK are set to accelerate after BT announced plans to increase its fibre broadband speeds for free.
April 6, 2012
Fibre brings big business benefits for Lancashire-based Poppy Signs
Independent economic analysis of the £62.5 million pound project to bring fibre broadband to virtually all of Lancashire suggests it could deliver a £100 shot in the arm to the local economy.
April 6, 2012
Lancashire business Purple Pig IT reaps rewards of fibre
As a result of upgrading to fibre it has enabled Purple Pig IT to offer a broader range of services to customers - including managed Microsoft Exchange and cloud services.
April 3, 2012
Lancashire gets broadband boost
Lancashire’s economy has been given a broadband boost after the county council (LCC) agreed a £62.5 million project with BT.
March 29, 2012
Small village to be ‘fibre-only’ – a UK first
BT has named Deddington, Oxfordshire, as the first place in the country where the traditional copper telephone network is to be replaced with fibre.
February 6, 2012
UK braces itself for ultra-fast broadband following successful trial
BT is to carry out further trials that could see ultra-fast fibre broadband piped directly into homes and businesses if people request it.
31 January 2012
SFBB conquers Cornwall’s St Michael’s Mount
Super-fast fibre broadband has arrived at one of the country’s most spectacular landmarks.
31 January 2012
Cornwall LTE trial extended
BT is extending until June a pioneering multi-operator trial that is providing next generation broadband to customers in rural Cornwall.
31 January 2012
Fibre broadband to be pumped into people’s homes
Openreach is pushing ahead with Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) by launching a trial to include some 1,000 apartment blocks.
13 December 2011
Openreach announces more homes and business to get superfast broadband
More than 1.8 million homes and businesses are to get superfast broadband after Openreach named a further 178 exchanges that are to received fibre.
5 December 2011
PM meets BT to discuss fibre broadband progress
Prime Minister David Cameron met with BT chief executive Ian Livingston today to hear about the company's vision for Broadband Britain.
16 November 2011
BT Retail reveals its fastest-ever broadband
BT Retail has unveiled an ultra-fast broadband service with download speeds of up to 100Mbps matching Virgin Media’s fastest service but with 50 per cent quicker upload speeds.
8 November 2011
Superfast Cornwall celebrates World Communications Awards win
Superfast Cornwall - the pioneering project to bring superfast broadband across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly - was named Project of the Year at the World Communication Awards.
1 November 2011
SFBB roll-out even speedier
Superfast broadband is being rolled out so quickly that two thirds of UK premises will have access to fibre by the end of 2014 – a year earlier than expected.
26 October 2011
Cornwall SFBB roll-out happening at superfast speed
Parts of East Cornwall are to get superfast broadband at least three months early as the first major phase of the pioneering Superfast Cornwall initiative kicks off ahead of schedule.
20 October 2011
Derry secures fibre first
Derry has become the first city in the UK and Ireland to be completely wired up with superfast broadband.
6 October 2011
UK to be propelled up the broadband league tables
Openreach has unveiled a hat trick of developments that will help the UK achieve its goal of becoming a world-beating broadband nation.
3 October 2011
Superfast broadband a must for UK business
Six in ten (58 per cent) of UK businesses maintain that superfast broadband is vital to their business, according to a report out today.
29 September 2011
Design and print business thriving on fibre broadband
Since having superfast broadband installed, Derry-based Print It For Me.com has seen download speed rocket from 3MB to 30MB with upload speeds now 20 times faster at 4-5MB.
23 September 2011
One year on: Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly take note of superfast broadband progress
It’s a year since the announcement to invest up to £132 million in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly to roll-out superfast broadband. So what exactly has happened over the last 12 months?
23 September 2011
Superfast Cornwall nominated for World Communication Awards
Superfast Cornwall – the initiative to bring superfast fibre broadband to up to 90 per cent of premises in the county and the Isles of Scilly – has been shortlisted as a finalist in World Communications Awards for “Project of the Year”.
14 September 2011
Million more to benefit from fibre
More than one million extra homes and businesses are set to benefit from access to superfast broadband as BT continues to roll-out superfast broadband at pace.
19 August 2011
BT welcomes government broadband investment
BT has welcomed news that the government is to invest just over £363 million to help boost the availability of broadband in England and Scotland.
17 August 2011
BT offers further major investment in superfast broadband
BT has called on government and public sector organisations around the country to work together to ensure that all parts of the UK benefit from fibre broadband.
17 August 2011
85 per cent of businesses in Northern Ireland have access to SFBB
Eighty-five per cent of businesses in Northern Ireland now have access to superfast broadband after its Next Generation Broadband Project was completed on time and on budget.
28 July 2011
SFBB passes 5m milestone
BT has confirmed that it has now passed more than five million premises in the UK with its superfast broadband (SFBB) network.
21 June 2011
Good news travels fast
There’s been a flurry of positive reaction across the country to news that Openreach plans to make superfast broadband available for an extra one million more homes and businesses by 2012.
17 June 2011
Further exchange locations keep superfast broadband plans buoyant
Openreach has revealed sixty six new exchange locations across Britain, which will eventually make superfast broadband available for around one million more homes and businesses by 2012.
17 June 2011
White space trials look promising for ‘not-spot’ areas
Openreach is trialling new wireless broadband access technology on the Isle of Bute, off the west coast of Scotland.
27 May 2011
Cornwall speeds to SFBB
BT Wholesale has underlined its commitment to use a mix of next generation access (NGA) technologies to bring broadband to remote areas of the UK.
26 May 2011
Cornwall first to trial 4G technology for speedy broadband
BT Wholesale has underlined its commitment to use a mix of next generation access (NGA) technologies to bring broadband to remote areas of the UK.
19 May 2011
No ‘silver bullet” for fibre roll-out in Scotland
There is no “silver bullet” that can solve the issue of delivering next generation broadband (NGB) to rural parts of the UK, a conference was told last week.
17 May 2011
SFBB – “a massive leap forward” says Cornwall’s newly connected
The roll-out of superfast broadband (SFBB) by BT in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly is already having an impact in the South-West.
17 May 2011
Fibre speeds set to ‘roughly double’ in 2012
BT has announced that it expects to ‘roughly double’ the download speeds of its fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC) service next year.
10 May 2011
Former troops called up for fibre assault
BT’s Openreach division is enlisting the help of some 200 ex-armed forces personnel to help deliver superfast fibre broadband to the UK.
22 April 2011
Millions more people to benefit from SFBB
The UK’s march to towards becoming a broadband super power took another giant stride recently with confirmation that a further 156 locations across the country will benefit from Openreach’s roll-out of superfast fibre broadband (SFBB).
20 April 2011
Cornwall wakes up to benefits of SFBB
Superfast broadband (SFBB) offers blistering speeds and rock-solid reliability that is perfect for today’s connected world. For home users, a music track can be downloaded in just two seconds, a whole album in 30 seconds and a feature length HD movie in just ten minutes.
8 April 2011
Cornwall celebrates first superfast surfers
The first 50 customers in Cornwall are now enjoying superfast broadband (SFBB) following the roll-out of fibre in the county.
7 April 2011
Broadband Britain gets an injection of speed
Around 20 million UK homes and businesses (around 80% of the UK) will be able to access speeds of up to 20Mbps thanks to BT Wholesale’s decision to extend the availability of advanced copper broadband.
7 April 2011
Thumbs up for Ethernet milestone
BT Wholesale passed a major milestone this week by confirming it has reached 1,000 live fibre Ethernet nodes in the UK.
5 April 2011
Regional authorities told: superfast broadband can jump-start rural regeneration
Representatives from local authorities and devolved assemblies learnt how superfast broadband can regenerate regional economies at an event at BT Tower in London.
16 March 2011
Openreach announces new chief exec
Olivia Garfield has been named as the new chief executive of Openreach.
8 March 2011
FTTP roll-out under the microscope
Last week a group of journalists and industry analysts went to Milton Keynes to see for themselves the progress BT is making rolling out superfast fibre-optic broadband.
2 March 2011
Video highlights Cornwall’s SFBB journey
In September 2010 it was confirmed that Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly are set to become one of the best connected locations in the world with the roll-out of superfast broadband (SFBB).
2 March 2011
Northern Ireland leading Europe’s fibre revolution
People in Northern Ireland are going to be among the most well connected in Europe following BT’s decision to accelerate the roll-out of fibre broadband.
18 February 2011
New Home Hub 3 is SFBB-ready
BT’s new Home Hub 3 – which is available from the end of February – will be equipped to handle superfast broadband (SFBB).
3 February 2011
New white paper addresses SFBB roll-out to final third
BT has published a new white paper that details the different approaches public bodies can take to rolling out next generation access in their region.
1 February 2011
BT engineers ‘go extra mile’ to meet fibre deadline
Two BT engineers have gone the extra mile – or five kilometres to be exact – to ensure superfast broadband is available to homes and businesses in Stepping Hill, near Manchester.
1 February 2011
Cumbrian conference hears about broadband plans
More than a hundred people attended the Broadband Meets Localism conference at Carlisle racecourse recently to hear about the future developments for Cumbria.
1 February 2011
SFBB – it’s what you do with it that counts
KDS is a leading technology provider in Northern Ireland. Working in conjunction with the Department of Finance and personnel (DFP), it has launched a scheme called ‘Bridging the Digital Divide’ aimed at bringing internet access to everyone in Northern Ireland.
26 January 2011
Openreach reveals draft duct and pole sharing proposals
Openreach, BT’s local access network division, has announced the draft pricing and design proposals for its new duct and pole sharing products.
24 January 2011
Forty one market towns secure future fibre investment
More than 40 market towns across the UK have been chosen to get BT’s superfast fibre broadband.
24 January 2011
First Olympic Games fibres installed in Olympic Park
The Openreach Olympic and Paralympic Games operational delivery team passed a significant milestone in autumn 2010 when the first fibre cables were installed in the Olympic Park.
24 January 2011
Fibre partnership ensures Northern Ireland prospers
It’s widely known that BT has made a £2.5 billion commitment to roll-out fibre-based superfast broadband to two-thirds of UK homes and businesses by 2015.
24 January 2011
SFBB: You’ve been framed!
So, what has superfast broadband and a picture framing business got in common? Well, on the face of it, not very much.
24 January 2011
Northern Ireland a shining light of fibre roll-out
Northern Ireland’s enterprise minister Arlene Foster has been speaking to Publicservice.co.uk about the roll-out of fibre in the region.
24 January 2011
Fibre is great for business
Superfast broadband is great. But it’s what you do with it that counts.