Openreach
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Ofcom updates Openreach’s full fibre network obligations
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Openreach must continue to offer competitors building their own full fibre broadband networks access to its ducts and poles at regulated “fair, cost-based prices” for the next five years under updated rules unveiled by Ofcom today.
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Openreach turns full fibre network into water leak detector
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A trial of Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) converts Openreach’s fibre optic cables into thousands of sensors that can ‘hear’ and pin-point leaks from surrounding water pipes.
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Openreach announces new CEO
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Katie Milligan is to take over as CEO of Openreach, the UK’s biggest phone and broadband network, following the departure of Clive Selley at the end of next month.
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Openreach extends copper ‘stop sell’ to another 1.2m premises
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Openreach says more than 1280 exchanges and 12.5 million premises across the UK are now covered by Stop Sell orders.
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Openreach closes first exchange in full fibre push
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Deddington in Oxfordshire has become the first location in the UK to see its old copper-based phone service switched off and replaced with a new digital service.
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Openreach hikes wholesale prices to accelerate digital phone switch
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The company is set to shut off the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) – which delivers most of the nation’s fixed-line phone services – in January 2027.