Openreach Publish UK FTTP Broadband Build Plan for 84 Exchanges

As promised Openreach’s (BT) “Fibre First” programme has recently published a full list of 84 UK exchange areas where their Gigabit capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP technology is either already being deployed or will start to be deployed within the next three months.

At the end of last month Openreach confirmed the names for a total of 26 UK cities, towns and boroughs that were now included in their full fibre roll-out programme (here). As part of that we linked to a new page on their website, which included a more detailed exchange level roll-out plan for each of those areas. But at the time of actually writing our article this list was not yet online and when it did appear they stuck it in the small print (below the interactive map).

The 12 month forward looking plan comes in a PDF document (here) and will be updated on a quarterly basis as they deploy toward their 3 million premises target by the end of 2020 (i.e. March 2021 financial). Crucially this plan is focused on their commercial “Fibre First” roll-out and thus does not show FTTP deployment related to Broadband Delivery UK linked projects, new sites and other small scale infill.

It’s worth noting that the term “Programme Build Complete” used below refers to the exchanges where build has been completed but does not mean that services will be available from this date. We should add that exchange based roll-out plans are only of limited use since most people will be more interested in street level coverage for their local area (you’ll probably spot when this is happening via local street or pole works teams).

Sorry for being slower than usual to post this (thought I’d already done it.. getting old 🙂 ).