9,000 Extra Homes in Scotland New Builds to Get Openreach’s 1Gbps FTTP

Some 9,000 homes around new build sites at Rosewell, Midlothian, Johnstone, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Lossiemouth, Edinburgh, East Calder, East Kilbride, Bonnyrigg, Inverness, Kintore and Chapelton are next in line to get Openreach’s (BT) ultrafast Fibre-to-the-Premise (FTTP) broadband service.

The deployment, which is part of the operator’s on-going effort to expand their FTTP network to 2 million UK premises by 2020, also fits into their existing agreement with the Home Builders Federation (HBF) and Homes for Scotland. Under the current arrangement Openreach will roll-out FTTP for free to all new UK housing developments of 30 properties or more (dependent on developers registering their site with Openreach and working together early in the building process).

Elsewhere any developments with two or more homes will have access to the company’s existing or planned fibre infrastructure (FTTC/P), either funded entirely by Openreach or, where necessary, with the help of co-funding from the developer.

Andrew Hepburn, Openreach Fibre Director for Scotland, said:

“An ultrafast broadband network will be a major boost for these new communities by ensuring that people living and working there have quick access to some of the fastest speeds available.

It reflects our commitment to ensuring that Scotland has a first-class network, capable of delivering the latest communication services for households, businesses and other organisations.

We know that people are passionate about the speed and reliability of the broadband service their communication provider can offer them and that, for some, the availability of ultrafast speeds will strongly influence their decision on which new property to buy.”

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