Openreach Name 517 New UK Locations for FTTP Broadband Rollout
Network operator Openreach (BT) has today announced a HUGE update, which reveals the next batch of 517 new locations – covering 2.7 million UK premises – to benefit from their roll-out of a 1.8Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network. The operator has already covered 14m premises, and this update largely completes their build plan to 2026.
The overall deployment, which is expected to cost up to £15bn and has also already reached around 3.8 million homes in some of the hardest to reach rural areas, is currently running at a build rate of c.78,000 premises per week (here). More than 4.7 million customers have also adopted the service via various different internet providers (more than 50,000 orders are being placed per week), which gives them a strong take-up rate of 34%.
The latest announcement, covering 2.7m additional premises, means that Openreach has now announced enough deployment plans to effectively reach their first goal of 25 million premises in 2026. But there might still be a few smaller additions and changes before they reach the finish line, as is normal for any tentative build plans. Overall, around 3,500 towns, cities, boroughs, villages and hamlets are now included in the build programme.
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The new locations also include 400,000 premises in the hardest to reach, most rural parts of the UK (i.e. Ofcom Area 3) with a spread across the UK, including Tobermory in Scotland; Haworth in West Yorkshire; Saundersfoot in South Wales; Pinxton in Derbyshire, Harlow in Essex; Southampton in Hampshire; and Roborough in Devon.
Clive Selley, CEO of Openreach, said:
“This is a UK infrastructure success story. We’re on track and on-budget to make this life-changing broadband technology available to 25 million homes and businesses, and no company is building faster or further in Europe, that we’re aware of.
We won’t be stopping there either. We plan to build right across the UK, from cities and towns to far-flung farms and island communities. Ultimately, we’ll reach as many as 30 million premises by the end of the decade if there’s a supportive political and regulatory environment.
Over time, we’ve learnt to deliver predictably, consistently and at a rapid pace – despite this being a hugely complex national engineering project. That gives us confidence to be even clearer about our build plans, and we want to be as transparent as possible about where and when we’re building. Today we’re publishing more detail than ever about the places we’re building in now, and the communities we’ll be upgrading next.”
The operator’s website is currently in the process of being updated to reflect the latest changes, including via their online map and their latest build plan. The operator typically aims to update the build information on their website at a minimum of every 3 months to adjust timings and add new locations as necessary.
In fact, in this case, Openreach have also made some changes to “give the public a clearer, regularly updated view of its plans and progress between now and 2026“. The map now shows the levels of current and future expected Full Fibre coverage as of today, taking data from all of its major build programmes, whilst the postcode checker continues to offer the most personalised view of the connectivity available to an individual home or business.
One catch with the new map is that it now colours vast swathes of the UK as “green” for places that Openreach says it has “built to, or will be building to, the majority of this area“, which some may view as giving an overly optimistic impression of coverage completion vs the old map.
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Otherwise, the service itself, once live, can be ordered via various broadband ISPs, such as BT, EE, Sky Broadband, TalkTalk, Vodafone and many more (Openreach FTTP ISP Choices) – it is not currently an automatic upgrade, although some ISPs are doing free automatic upgrades as older copper-based services and lines are slowly withdrawn.
However, Openreach’s commercial build will still leave some premises unserved by their full fibre network, although many of those should hopefully be tackled by alternative network providers (as is already the case in quite a few areas) and the Government’s £5bn Project Gigabit programme (Openreach have just been named a preferred supplier for future Type C procurements, so there’s more to come).
Finally, Openreach expects to add a total of 4 million extra premises to their UK FTTP coverage across the 2025 financial year (FY25), which will be up from around 3.5m in FY24.
List of 517 New Full Fibre Build Locations
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| Exchange Name | Exchange Location |
| Abbots Bromley | Abbots Bromley |
| Abercrave | Abercrave |
| Aberporth | Aberporth |
| Adwick Le Street | Adwick le Street |
| Albrighton | Albrighton |
| Alderton | Alderton (Tewkesbury) |
| Quatt | Alveley |
| Weyhill | Andover |
| Armthorpe | Armthorpe |
| Ashover | Ashover |
| Ashtead | Ashtead |
| Aspatria | Aspatria |
| Insch | Auchleven |
| Bacton | Bacton |
| Ashton (Worcestershire) | Badsey |
| Balmullo | Balmullo |
| West Wratting | Balsham |
| Bampton Castle | Bampton (West Oxfordshire) |
| Wroxton St Mary | Banbury |
| Banknock | Banknock |
| Barkway | Barkway |
| Cadnam | Bartley |
| Greatford | Baston |
| Combe Down | Bath |
| Kingsmead | Bath |
| Hexton | Bedford |
| Ravensden | Bedford |
| Bedlington | Bedlington |
| Bedworth | Bedworth |
| Belford | Belford |
| Bentley | Bentley (Doncaster) |
| Bentley (Hampshire) | Bentley (East Hampshire) |
| Berkhamsted | Berkhamsted |
| Bildeston | Bildeston |
| Billingborough | Billingborough |
| Billinge | Billinge |
| Tickhill | Bircotes |
| Chelmsley | Birmingham |
| Druids Heath | Birmingham |
| Edgbaston | Birmingham |
| South | Birmingham |
| Wythall | Birmingham |
| Blakeney | Blakeney (Forest of Dean) |
| Blantyre | Blantyre |
| Blockley | Blockley |
| Blunham | Blunham |
| Laughton | Blyton |
| Bothwell | Bothwell |
| Northbourne | Bournemouth |
| Sellindge | Brabourne Lees |
| Bradford | Bradford |
| Brancaster | Brancaster Staithe |
| Brighstone | Brighstone |
| Pailton | Brinklow |
| Bitton | Bristol |
| Fishponds | Bristol |
| Henbury | Bristol |
| Kingswood | Bristol |
| Winterbourne | Bristol |
| Brockenhurst | Brockenhurst |
| Binbrook | Brookenby |
| Aberdeen Bucksburn | Bucksburn |
| Burford | Burford |
| Burgh | Burgh le Marsh |
| Burghfield Common | Burghfield Common |
| Brent Knoll | Burnham-on-Sea |
| Bursledon | Bursledon |
| Burton Bradstock | Burton Bradstock |
| Burwash | Burwash |
| Burwell | Burwell |
| Barrow | Bury St Edmunds |
| Butterwick | Butterwick |
| Camberley | Camberley |
| Science Park | Cambridge |
| Rockcliffe | Carlisle |
| North Carlton | Carlton in Lindrick |
| Chalfont St Giles | Chalfont St Giles |
| Bisley | Chalford |
| Charlbury | Charlbury |
| Chatteris | Chatteris |
| Cheveley | Cheveley |
| Campden | Chipping Campden |
| Ongar | Chipping Ongar |
| Christchurch (Dorset) | Christchurch |
| Highcliffe | Christchurch |
| Chulmleigh | Chulmleigh |
| Churchill | Churchill (Somerset) |
| Clare | Clare |
| Claydon | Claydon |
| Humberston | Cleethorpes |
| Osgathorpe | Coalville |
| Cockfield | Cockfield |
| Birch | Colchester |
| Fordham Essex | Colchester |
| Purleigh | Cold Norton |
| Buckminster | Colsterworth |
| Comberbach | Comberbach |
| Conisbrough | Conisbrough |
| Copplestone | Copplestone |
| Corfe Castle | Corfe Castle |
| Rockingham | Cottingham |
| Walsgrave On Sowe | Coventry |
| Dudley (Tyne and Wear) | Cramlington |
| Cranbrook | Cranbrook |
| Crondall | Crondall |
| Cockwells | Crowlas |
| Aberdeen Bieldside | Cults |
| Deeping St Nicholas | Deeping St Nicholas |
| Dinnington | Dinnington (Rotherham) |
| Dickleburgh | Diss |
| Pulham Market | Diss |
| Dobwalls | Dobwalls |
| Cradley Heath | Dudley (Dudley) |
| Dundee Fairmuir | Dundee |
| Invergowrie | Dundee |
| Dundee Steeple | Dundee |
| Toddington | Dunstable |
| Cambridge (Gloucestershire) | Dursley |
| Aberdeen Dyce | Dyce |
| Earl Shilton | Earl Shilton |
| Earls Colne | Earls Colne |
| East Bergholt | East Bergholt |
| East Leake | East Leake |
| East Peckham | East Peckham |
| Chandlers Ford | Eastleigh |
| Eastleigh | Eastleigh |
| Fair Oak | Eastleigh |
| Eckington | Eckington |
| Eckington (Worcestershire) | Eckington |
| Pentland | Edinburgh |
| Wester Hailes | Edinburgh |
| Elstead | Elstead |
| Embleton | Embleton |
| Emsworth | Emsworth |
| Evanton | Evanton |
| Tadworth | Ewell |
| Eynsham | Eynsham |
| Constantine | Falmouth |
| Faringdon | Faringdon |
| Farnborough (Hampshire) | Farnborough (Hampshire) |
| Farnham | Farnham |
| Filton | Filton |
| Flookburgh | Flookburgh |
| Fortrose | Fortrose |
| Foulsham | Foulsham |
| Fowlmere | Fowlmere |
| Gainford | Gainford |
| Felling | Gateshead |
| Low Fell | Gateshead |
| Possil | Glasgow |
| Glenrothes Central | Glenrothes |
| Glenrothes South | Glenrothes |
| Gloucester | Gloucester |
| Godshill | Godshill (Isle of Wight) |
| Newton | Gorefield |
| Goring | Goring |
| Grantown On Spey | Grantown-on-Spey |
| Chafford | Grays |
| Great Bardfield | Great Bardfield |
| Great Glen | Great Glen |
| Great Horkesley | Great Horkesley |
| Nayland | Great Horkesley |
| Great Yeldham | Great Yeldham |
| Barnet | Greater London – Barnet |
| Colindale | Greater London – Barnet |
| Golders Green | Greater London – Barnet |
| Hendon | Greater London – Barnet |
| Cricklewood | Greater London – Brent |
| Harlesden | Greater London – Brent |
| Kingsbury | Greater London – Brent |
| North Wembley | Greater London – Brent |
| Willesden | Greater London – Brent |
| Euston | Greater London – Camden |
| Hampstead | Greater London – Camden |
| Soho | Greater London – City of Westminster |
| Whitehall | Greater London – City of Westminster |
| Westminster | Greater London – City of Westminster |
| Addiscombe | Greater London – Croydon |
| Croydon | Greater London – Croydon |
| Lodge Hill | Greater London – Croydon |
| Sanderstead | Greater London – Croydon |
| Acton | Greater London – Ealing |
| Ealing | Greater London – Ealing |
| Southall | Greater London – Ealing |
| Enfield | Greater London – Enfield |
| Palmers Green | Greater London – Enfield |
| Ponders End | Greater London – Enfield |
| Greenwich | Greater London – Greenwich |
| Hammersmith | Greater London – Hammersmith and Fulham |
| Shepherds Bush | Greater London – Hammersmith and Fulham |
| West Kensington | Greater London – Hammersmith and Fulham |
| Muswell Hill | Greater London – Haringey |
| Isleworth | Greater London – Hounslow |
| Clerkenwell | Greater London – Islington |
| Upper Holloway | Greater London – Islington |
| Kensal Green | Greater London – Kensington and Chelsea |
| Nine Elms | Greater London – Lambeth |
| Deptford | Greater London – Lewisham |
| Lee Green | Greater London – Lewisham |
| Stepney Green | Greater London – Tower Hamlets |
| Canary Wharf | Greater London – Tower Hamlets |
| Mile End | Greater London – Tower Hamlets |
| Poplar | Greater London – Tower Hamlets |
| Battersea | Greater London – Wandsworth |
| Farnworth | Greater Manchester – Bolton |
| Scartho | Grimsby |
| Grundisburgh | Grundisburgh |
| Puttenham | Guildford |
| Worplesdon | Guildford |
| Guisborough | Guisborough |
| Much Hadham | Hadham Cross |
| Halesowen | Halesowen |
| Knockholt | Halstead |
| Hamilton | Hamilton |
| Harlow | Harlow |
| Oatlands Mount | Harrogate |
| Harston | Harston |
| Ramsey | Harwich |
| Hatherleigh | Hatherleigh |
| Hawes | Hawes |
| Haworth | Haworth |
| Headcorn | Headcorn |
| Hemswell | Hemswell Cliff |
| Hermitage | Hermitage |
| Bourne End | High Wycombe |
| Hightown | Hightown |
| Thursford | Hindringham |
| Hockliffe | Hockliffe |
| Holbrook | Holbrook |
| Holme On Spalding Moor | Holme-on-Spalding-Moor |
| Hook Norton | Hook Norton |
| Horndean | Horndean |
| Waterlooville | Horndean |
| Horning | Horning |
| Danehill | Horsted Keynes |
| Houghton Regis | Houghton Regis |
| Scillonia | Hugh town |
| Hulland Ward | Hulland Ward |
| Hullavington | Hullavington |
| Watton Dummy | Hutton Cranswick |
| Hutton Rudby | Hutton Rudby |
| Hythe (Hampshire) | Hythe |
| Immingham | Immingham |
| Twigworth | Innsworth |
| Ipstones | Ipstones |
| Jarrow | Jarrow |
| Kegworth | Kegworth |
| Kelsall | Kelsall |
| Kemble | Kemble |
| Kenilworth | Kenilworth |
| Boars Hill | Kennington |
| Kessingland | Kessingland |
| Rock | Kidderminster |
| Kimbolton | Kimbolton |
| Kings Somborne | King’s Somborne |
| Kingsley | Kingsley (Cheshire West and Chester) |
| Longworth | Kingston Bagpuize |
| Kintbury | Kintbury |
| Kirkby Stephen | Kirkby Stephen |
| Kirkby In Ashfield | Kirkby-in-Ashfield |
| Bletchington | Kirtlington |
| Kiveton | Kiveton Park |
| Lower Peover | Knutsford |
| Lambourn | Lambourn |
| Larkhall | Larkhall |
| Aylestone | Leicester |
| Belgrave | Leicester |
| Braunstone | Leicester |
| Leicester Haymarket | Leicester |
| East Wigston | Leicester |
| West Wigston | Leicester |
| Leire | Leire |
| Letterston | Letterston |
| Waddington | Lincoln |
| Liss | Liss |
| Littlehampton | Littlehampton |
| Rustington | Littlehampton |
| Livingston Bridge | Livingston |
| Llansteffan | Llansteffan |
| Llanybydder | Llanybyther |
| Lochwinnoch | Lochwinnoch |
| Long Crendon | Long Crendon |
| Longhope (Gloucestershire) | Longhope |
| Crafts Hill | Longstanton |
| Loughborough | Loughborough |
| Axbridge | Lower Weare |
| Lydbrook | Lydbrook |
| Lydd | Lydd |
| Prestbury | Macclesfield |
| Maiden Newton | Maiden Newton |
| Otham | Maidstone |
| South Cockerington | Manby |
| Marden | Marden (Maidstone) |
| Warsop | Market Warsop |
| Market Weighton | Market Weighton |
| Marks Tey | Marks Tey |
| Ramsbury | Marlborough |
| Marlow | Marlow |
| Marnhull | Marnhull |
| Stratton Audley | Marsh Gibbon |
| Marshchapel | Marshchapel |
| Melbourn | Melbourn |
| Melksham | Melksham |
| Methwold | Methwold |
| Mickleton | Mickleton (Cotswold) |
| Steeple Aston | Middle Barton |
| Winterslow | Middle Winterslow |
| Eston Grange | Middlesbrough |
| Linthorpe | Middlesbrough |
| Marton (North Yorkshire) | Middlesbrough |
| Stainton | Middlesbrough |
| Middleton Cheney | Middleton Cheney |
| Middleton In Teesdale | Middleton-in-Teesdale |
| Middleton (East Riding of Yorkshire) | Middleton-on-the-Wolds |
| Milborne St Andrew | Milborne St Andrew |
| Tittleshall | Mileham |
| Milverton | Milverton |
| Mobberley | Mobberley |
| Moreton In Marsh | Moreton-in-Marsh |
| Parson Drove | Murrow |
| Nailsea | Nailsea |
| Hamble | Netley |
| New Milton | New Milton |
| New Ollerton | New Ollerton |
| New Romney | New Romney |
| Rossington | New Rossington |
| Newborough (Anglesey) | Newborough (Isle of Anglesey) |
| Newcastle Emlyn | Newcastle Emlyn |
| Kenton | Newcastle upon Tyne |
| Exning | Newmarket |
| Newport Dyfed | Newport (Pembrokeshire) |
| Newport On Tay | Newport-on-Tay |
| Newton Ferrers | Newton Ferrers |
| Ninfield | Ninfield |
| Bubwith | North Duffield |
| North Somercotes | North Somercotes |
| North Thoresby | North Thoresby |
| Weston Favell | Northampton (Northamptonshire) |
| Chiselborough | Norton sub Hamdon |
| Oakley (Hampshire) | Oakley (Basingstoke and Deane) |
| Burrowbridge | Othery |
| Ottershaw | Ottershaw |
| Swavesey | Over |
| Meare Heath | Oxenpill |
| Cowley | Oxford |
| Headington | Oxford |
| Pangbourne | Pangbourne |
| Papworth St Agnes | Papworth Everard |
| Pattishall | Pattishall |
| Pencader | Pencader |
| Rilla Mill | Pensilva |
| Roborough | Plymouth |
| Treforest | Pontypridd |
| Lytchett Minster | Poole |
| Parkstone | Poole |
| P.G.Newark | Port Glasgow |
| Poynton | Poynton |
| Prudhoe | Prudhoe |
| Puckeridge | Puckeridge |
| Kenfig Hill | Pyle |
| Marston Magna | Queen Camel |
| Radstock | Radstock |
| Raglan | Raglan |
| Blidworth | Rainworth |
| Ranskill | Ranskill |
| Ridgewell | Ridgewell |
| Ripon | Ripon |
| Surlingham | Rockland St Mary |
| Benenden | Rolvenden |
| Blackheath | Rowley Regis |
| Ryton | Ryton |
| Saffron Walden | Saffron Walden |
| Rottingdean | Saltdean |
| Saundersfoot | Saundersfoot |
| Sawston | Sawston |
| Saxilby | Saxilby |
| Snape | Saxmundham |
| Scone | Scone |
| Seaton Delaval | Seaton Delaval |
| Seend | Seend |
| Sharpthorne | Sharpthorne |
| Shawbury | Shawbury |
| Twycross | Sheepy Magna |
| Shepshed | Shepshed |
| Sherston | Sherston |
| Shifnal | Shifnal |
| Shipton U Wychwood | Shipton under Wychwood |
| Harlescott | Shrewsbury |
| Shrewton | Shrewton |
| Sibsey | Sibsey |
| Silverstone | Silverstone |
| Benningbrough | Skelton (York) |
| Skirlaugh | Skirlaugh |
| Smethwick | Smethwick |
| Snainton | Snainton |
| Hayling Island | South Hayling |
| Pinxton | South Normanton |
| Thistleton | South Witham |
| Sticklepath | South Zeal |
| Hampton | Southampton |
| Moorhill | Southampton |
| Rownhams | Southampton |
| Shirley (Hampshire) | Southampton |
| Southampton | Southampton |
| Woolston | Southampton |
| Southery | Southery |
| Southrepps | Southrepps |
| St Tudy | St Breward |
| St Clears | St Clears |
| St Davids | St Davids |
| Stanstead Abbotts | St Margarets |
| St Mawes | St Mawes |
| Stalbridge | Stalbridge |
| Stamford Bridge | Stamford Bridge |
| Stanford In The Vale | Stanford in the Vale |
| Stanley (County Durham) | Stanley |
| Staplehurst | Staplehurst |
| Steeple Bumpstead | Steeple Bumpstead |
| Steeple Claydon | Steeple Claydon |
| Steeple Morden | Steeple Morden |
| Steyning | Steyning |
| Stickney | Stickney |
| Stillington Xmidd | Stillington (Stockton-on-Tees) |
| Stocksbridge | Stocksbridge |
| Fulmer | Stoke Poges |
| Ash Bank | Stoke-on-Trent |
| Endon | Stoke-on-Trent |
| Stone | Stone (Aylesbury Vale) |
| Stonesfield | Stonesfield |
| Lye | Stourbridge |
| Stourbridge | Stourbridge |
| Hagley | Stourbridge |
| Stow-On-The-Wold | Stow-on-the-Wold |
| Sturminster Marshall | Sturminster Marshall |
| Stow (Lincolnshire) | Sturton by Stow |
| Hylton | Sunderland |
| Surfleet | Surfleet Seas End |
| Ashfield | Sutton Coldfield |
| Sutton In Ashfield | Sutton in Ashfield |
| Sutton St Nicholas | Sutton St Nicholas |
| Sutton Valence | Sutton Valence |
| Aston Common | Swallownest |
| Monk Sherborne | Tadley |
| Silchester | Tadley |
| Tadley | Tadley |
| Fazeley | Tamworth |
| Polesworth | Tamworth |
| Tayport | Tayport |
| Tedburn St Mary | Tedburn St Mary |
| Cuckoo Oak | Telford |
| Donnington | Telford |
| Temple Cloud | Temple Cloud |
| Templecombe | Templecombe |
| Woolhampton | Theale |
| Thornbury | Thornbury |
| Keyingham | Thorngumbald |
| Threewaters | Threemilestone |
| Tideswell | Tideswell |
| Tilbury | Tilbury |
| Timsbury | Timsbury |
| Finmere | Tingewick |
| Tobermory | Tobermory |
| Tockwith | Tockwith |
| Hildenborough | Tonbridge |
| Trearddur Bay | Trearddur |
| Tring | Tring |
| Beragh | Unmapped |
| Gortin | Unmapped |
| Glenwherry | Unmapped |
| Stoneyford | Unmapped |
| Tulnacross | Unmapped |
| Upavon | Upavon |
| Uppingham | Uppingham |
| Chirton | Urchfont |
| Waddesdon | Waddesdon |
| Wallingford | Wallingford |
| Waltham | Waltham |
| Cropredy | Wardington |
| Hartlebury | Waresley |
| Upper Warlingham | Warlingham |
| Elton | Warmington (East Northamptonshire) |
| Warminster | Warminster |
| Warwick | Warwick |
| Washingborough | Washingborough |
| Shrivenham | Watchfield |
| Wath Upon Dearne | Wath upon Dearne |
| Watlington (Oxfordshire) | Watlington (South Oxfordshire) |
| Wells (Somerset) | Wells |
| Welton | Welton (Lincolnshire) |
| West Coker | West Coker |
| West Haddon | West Haddon |
| West Wellow | West Wellow |
| Westbury Wilts | Westbury (Wiltshire) |
| Priddy | Westbury-sub-Mendip |
| Wheatley | Wheatley |
| Whickham | Whickham |
| Whitchurch | Whitchurch (Aylesbury Vale) |
| Saul | Whitminster |
| Whittington | Whittington (Lichfield) |
| Green Hammerton | Whixley |
| Wickwar | Wickwar |
| Wideopen | Wideopen |
| Harestock | Winchester |
| Winchester | Winchester |
| Winslow | Winslow |
| Finchfield | Wolverhampton |
| Woodbury | Woodbury |
| Checkendon | Woodcote |
| Wragby | Wragby |
| Aston | Wrenbury-cum-Frith |
| Yarmouth | Yarmouth |
| Yetminster | Yetminster |
| Acomb | York |
| Dringhouses | York |
| Haxby | York |
| Melrosegate | York |
| Upper Cwmtwrch | Ystradgynlais |
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Now my area has Openreach planned as well as CityFibre and Nexfibre. I wonder which will come first. NexFibre has just done some bits, but I won’t touch that unless it goes wholesale, even if they go live before the other 2.
CityFibre seemed to have slowed down in the town nearby they were building in, gotten half way and then stopped. No work showing on BIDB. Can’t find any info to why it just stopped, wonder if it’s issues with contractors maybe.
Stuff won’t show on BIDB unless the council needs to be notified of road works. For cable pulling, splicing etc. the council doesn’t need to be notified.
Tbh CityFibre round here have given up. They did a bit of cable pulling, screwed the AFN brackets to poles, and put in a notification for ducting on the bit of 1960s estate (unsure if the work ever got done) but have since given up with no work being seen. I think they are focusing on completing existing builds, and round me it wasn’t progressed so they cut their losses for now.
Meanwhile Virgin Media/Nexfibre have put most of the cabinets in and seem quite a way along on getting XGS PON live.
@Alex A it’s really strange how CF seem to have started so much and then not finished it – must be at least 2 years since I saw them working at the end of my street, still no sign of any service available in the area.
Finally at last Cuckoo Oak Telford is named for FTTP between now and 2026. Can’t wait for FTTP.
will depend how much coverage they do in that exchange and what sort of premise you live in as well , dont make an assumption that your premise wil ever be deployed
Meanwhile larger towns such as Skelmersdale don’t get a look in unless you’re living in one of the overpriced newbuilds.
Same story, lack of BT FTTP here in Exmouth, Devon.
Strip out new builds (given their build rate) and the picture becomes even rosier. Our street went live in 2021 and now has a 52% take up.
The map is vague with built to ‘some’, ‘many’, ‘will be’.
Yeah, it feels like the wording got lawyerised and less useful
But also still half warning the altnets off their patch, while also hinting that govt support is required
I love reading through half the UK and still not being on the list. Absolutely insane. Fibre spine laid. New poles installed. Still not in the build.
Instead they moved down the road as soon as virgin started building.
course they did — why would you spend your money overbuilding virgin
If you’re Openreach why wouldn’t you overbuild Nexfibre?
There are at least two exchanges that Virgin/Nextfibre have just done namely Prudhoe and Ryton. They are also over building Tayport and Newport on Tay both of which are currently been done by an altnet
Finally my exchange is listed – just after nexfibre have completed coverage and giganet (now cuckoo) and trooli are mostly done. I’m sure the locals will love the 4th set of pavement works… (they almost assaulted the workers during the second lot! It was all anyone moaned about for months).
Lets add another 500+ areas to the list even though we haven’t done those we announced in 2020.
Indeed, the timescales are so vague as to be pointless. Surely they could give us a slightly more realistic idea? I’ll just be happy to get it by some time in 2026, having mostly given up hope until today….
It is crazy, we are getting closer and closer to the deadline and still can’t get any information, just by 2026.
It seems worrying that Openreach are unable to plan 2 years in advance at this point.
What is also worrying is it took VM 2 years to do half the town via PIA, so how is openreach planning to do almost all of it in that time.
The deadline is going to be pushed back, I can see it coming a mile off. So many things just don’t quite add up around here.
Just noting, it appears that all of the exchanges showing as ‘unmapped’ are in Northern Ireland.
Wouldn’t surprise me as the list was a bit tentative, dropping just before the bank holiday.
Inevitable I suppose, New Romney on this list at last but I have given up waiting and Trooli are due to connect our fibre this morning.
An interesting move to add more locations to the list, when there are so many that were already on the list and still have not moved past the vague “at some point in the future” stage
It would be interesting to see a list of not done/not ready exchanges
The two Edgware Exchanges in London
have not been upgraded to FTTP yet
Edgware has only got Community Fibre available at the moment
On the Openreach website it says FTTP coming in 2026
Aspatria in Cumbria is listed, it is already live on Fibrus and has been for several months, Openreach late to the party.
Aspatria was one of Fibrus’ first Cumbria regional procurement builds under Project Gigabit. It seems noncommercial properties can be reached commercially after all, even against an incumbent who has benefited from public subsidy.
I also notice that largely FTTP-free Kirkby Stephen seems to be part of the intervention area but BT have announced they are building there too. It will be interesting to see if Kirkby Stephen, and probably others, have been/will be removed from the Cumbria intervention area (i.e. the Fibrus build) or will we end up with two networks, one being publicly subsidised.
Of course, the public only have one of BDUKs useless fussy-blobby maps to determine coverage together with a postcode list dating from the July 2022 public review. The Fibrus Cumbria contact announcement on 2nd December 2022 stated that “Further detail on the premises due to be upgraded as part of this network build contract will be available on this page in due course.”
Still waiting….
Woohoo so glad to see my area made the list, cityfibre skipped my street with the street not managed by the council and now the council managed the street they never came back.
Happy Tuesday!
dont assume that will get covered
The Openreach “where and when” map is pretty useless now.
Areas which previously showed as “build complete”, areas where build is underway, and areas where the build hasn’t even started, are now all showing as green.
Not in my Dankshire town, but who knows, there are two alt-net companies apparently coming into town.
One, no info but they have rodded & roped, and a green box installed, its big sister not arrived yet.
Second, lots of talk re the more rural bits, with some gov money, but in the town, it was supposed to be privately funded.
On the OR site I can get Superfast broadband up to 29Mbs, I thought 30Mbs was the Ofcom speed to determine the service speed?
SuperSlow broadband till someone (hopefully not OR) arrives.
> I thought 30Mbs was the Ofcom speed to determine the service speed?
“Superfast” is either 24Mbps or 30Mbps depending on who you’re talking to.
I think 30Mbps qualifies as super slow by 2024 standards. I’m grateful to get 67Mbps, sometimes it almost squeezes itself up to 70, according to the router. But hey, it looks like fibre might now arrive by 2026. My in laws, in ‘small town’ northern Malaysia, had fibre nearly a decade ago….
And still nothing for my major town. I’m getting to the point where I’m seriously considering a leased line 🙁
Is there any credence to exchanges being missed being areas that are direct buried, i.e. no ducting to use once off the main pulls?
Looking at some areas I know, the map appears very conservative as some areas with OR FTTP rollout and RFS are still shown as Green. It indicates to me that they smaller resource teams working away in parallel and can move resources, including civils activity, between areas to keep up the pace.
At least the map indicates exchange areas where OR will not be arriving for some time and alternatives considered and invested in such as 4G/5G. Presuming of course those being left out will also those without an effective signal.
Still no Midhurst, complete shambles…
midxhurst was announced in 2021 or did you miss that — the announcement is new areas
Midhurst is shown as Green.
For the central areas of Midhurst, Swish announced they were building in 2022. How they getting along?
Swish have done sod all since 2022 just green box doing sod all…
The map look much worsen now than the old one.
https://api.superfastmaps.co.uk/fibrecities/4.0/
Noticed a severe lack of build in Scotland again ,could this be due to Scottish government ??
Large portions of exchanges in Scotland are not commercially viable to upgrade, outside of major towns and cities, and many will probably end up being closed as part of the wider programme to exit thousands of exchanges. Those which aren’t marked for any plans will probably be covered by the Scottish Government’s own R100% project, which isn’t going to get shown on the map any time soon, until that area has large amounts of coverage [Lyth exchange outside Wick is an example of an exchange marked as green but which was entirely a smaller build programme and not a commercial project]
I think it’s more to do with the hills
Good to see an update, and that’s quite a long list of new exchanges, great to see.
I do wish they’d settle on a convention of articulating the status and progress on their map. That’s it now changed again, and at first glance the map looks much “greener”, but the devil is in the details….
For those interested, the previous map (which I thought was more informative) is still available for now here – https://api.superfastmaps.co.uk/fibrecities/3.0/
Even all these still online
The map keep changing from version 1.0 to 4.0 and probably will see the final version 5.0 soon.
https://api.superfastmaps.co.uk/fibrecities/1.0/
https://api.superfastmaps.co.uk/fibrecities/2.0/
https://api.superfastmaps.co.uk/fibrecities/3.0/
https://api.superfastmaps.co.uk/fibrecities/4.0/
Most of the green isn’t even 50% done. It’s not devil in the detail, it’s just flat out lying.
What I don’t get is, those of us who have been waiting for two or three years should surely be getting a more concreate timeframe now considering we are only getting closer to 2026. Yet it appears that the opposite is happening. More obscurity.
I personally don’t think they’ll hit the target. I think this year we’ll see a mass cancellation of projects which is why the map has been change to reflect “most”.
Green = some have FTTP.
Blue = at least 1 street has FTTP.
Gray = at least 1 house.
With Alt-nets failing left right and centre and CF not announcing any new areas, there is simply no need to build anymore full fibre at a decent rate. It’ll be a long grind up to 100% by 2035.
That URL shows the incorrect exchange for me. The openreach checker now shows “Build planned between
now and Dec-2026”. For which exchange, who knows, probably not mine :).
Finally Kingsmead,Bath has made the list…Hopefully my area will get done.Wonder whether Truespeed will continue laying fibre here,there coils hanging from poles, but no further work for over a month now.
Still nothing for my area ( Blaxton / Finningley / Auckley ) yet they have decided to do Armthorpe and Rossington now despite CityFibre and Virgin both covering these in the last couple of years. Funny though as the map is showing me green now “in the future”…….
Good job Quickline came in and blitzed my area and go live shortly, otherwise I fear I would be drawing my pension by the time OR arrive.
They are doing the whole country mate, passing million premises a quarter… not just some random areas like altnets
Same in Epworth/Belton etc. had Quickline since november last year they are great
Very sneaky of them to change the map to have green mean all sorts of things. Since at a glance, green = good colour, which means Opeanreach = doing a good job…right? They must think we’re idiots. On the bright side if you click onto individual exchanges on the map it does give you a little more info, my exchange is green but at least now is in the “within the next 12 months” phase for instance. Some neighbouring exchanges have already been completed, and some still are showing as being built at some unspecified time “in the future” but they’re all showing as green because green good!
You guessed it, my exchange still not there lol, so a inner city densely populated area doesnt have enough of a business case for the 80% rollout, I would love to be a fly on the wall when they discussing metrics.
Most likely there’s no infrastructure on your area so they do not want to dig
there will be a number of reasons that determine suitability for commercial investment Greggles you dont mention what exchnage that is i assume no one has decided its worthwhile or someone else has so openreach dont think its good use of its commercial investment
Good to see more of Tower Hamlets on an Openreach Build Plan. It’s only fair since we are home to Telehouse and Equinix data centres!
More “Jam tomorrow” fantasy installation league.
About as likely as getting it in my area as the “Second coming”, if DV is an exemplar
DV was scheduled for my area starting last December, local pop-up meetings were advertised, a yellow banner appeared on my account presaging the event – nothing heard since. All this carp about defferal of the introduction so that the needs of the infirm and disabled can be catered for . . . .more likely management are just hoping everybody that 4G and 5G will ‘Come of age’ and those presently unnconnected to FTTC/FTTP will jump on that bandwagon saving management any more spend on installation.
Unless you’re an intense gamer or have a large family, why bother to wait ? Just save yourself several hundred quid a year, ditch the landline account and go mobile connection. I’ve found that anything above 3-5Mbps is more than adequate for basic Broadband connection needs including TV streaming, YT videos, radio.and I’m getting anything for 3-5Mbps down on a bad day to 14-16Mbps down on a good day. If availability of service is crucial you can even engage a “Fail-over” mobile service and still save a shed of money compared with fibre broadband + telephone charges.
I’m getting, even with a poor signal strength for 4G, 14-16Mbps today
meanwhile, back on planet earth, BT/EE try very hard to not sell you a 4G/5G connection for home use unless they absolutely have to, and it doesn’t offer any sort of telephone service.
it’s almost like they’ve made a multi billion pound investment in fixed line broadband and whenever possible they want you to use it.
I’ve had DV for a couple of years. My parents moved to it – voluntarily – when they last recontracted. New customers will get DV if they want a telephone service. They’ve had to rethink how to handle vulnerable customers, but there’s no evidence that the mandatory migration programme is stalled.
Starlink is your answer, not mobile.
As is usual in this country over the last 30 years, too little to fluffing late.
How so? Too late for whom? How is too little?
30 years is correct. Was working in BT at the time and was one of the people due to manage the speech traffic onto the then forth coming fibre platform (VOIP was a pipedream at that time); Was due to move office when I was told that BT had been stopped fibre-ing up the country as it was deemed ‘Anti Competative’! the BT factories who were starting production of the fibre exchange and customer kit were shut down and apparently the designs given away – BT didn’t even retain the IPR.
Was that on the orders of, as I was told, Ofcom or more likely HMG. I can’t answer that one but there has been a public comments by various people on the subject. Search ‘TechRadar BT Fibre 1990’.
A part of the plans was to put broadcast TV onto Fibre as the futurists in BT could see the demand for radio spectrum in the low/mid UHF range becoming highly in demand. Which is why we now see terrestrial broadcast TV having gone digital still struggling to supply every channel to every house in the UK (and Europe).
The UK could have been at the front of the roll-out internationally. Instead we have the country struggling to catch what with ‘Cherry Picking’ Altnets taking HMG’s money; in. towns seeing the 3, 4 or more companies rolling Fibre out in one street and the next street ignored, Altnets in Rural areas fibre-ing up villages but damaging the old BT infrastructure or digging holes in peoples gardens etc then selling contracts at silly low prices hiding the ‘time bomb’ of a massive price rise 18 months in the future.
If all else fails there’s always 4G/5G or Starfleet.
Starfleet . . . well, if you’re into status statements and second mortages !
Various 4/5G mobile providers are offering a range of unlimited packages on PAYG at rates which makes landline broadband a non-starter . . .I’ve seen advertised packages providing unlimited everything, calls, texts and data for £25 a month or unlimited data only for £20. Best case £240 per annum pa.And even if you add in another provider for “Fail-over” (Not really necessary for me), then its £480 per annum.
Currently my 50mbps landline service (Phone+Broadband+Broadband “Fail-over”) is costing me £72 a month i.e. £864 per annum.
On pensioner income, you have to be appreciative of these differences, especially if the prospective Obersturmbanfuhrer for No 11 Downing Street is going to start taxing State Pension as has been speculated.
Funny that the near monopoly supplier of landlines never saw this decision point coming . . no concessionary rate for pensioners.
Still nothing for the Clandon Exchange in Rural Surrey. Altnets seem to be avoiding it like the plague but happy to work around in places like Guildford, etc and BT has no known plans 🙁
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https://labs.thinkbroadband.com/local/index.php?tab=2&election=1#14/51.2584/-0.4847/geafttp/
Plusnet showing FTTP products for GU4 7SX (The Street)
It appears there but not complete for the Clandon Exchange. OR are progressing everywhere but not complete exchange areas. Hence I assume the redefinitions. You are a lot more forward than others.
@Meadmodj – I’m in GU23 which is the opposite side of GU7 where you’ve referenced, so I fail to see how that actually helps me :\
Just indicating that Clandon Exchange is included in the OR plan even if for some premises its 2026
FTTP equipment (rollout) is present so presumably is augmentation rather than new.
If you are over the Send Marsh/Send Green side of the A3 then it may be some time before they cable out but much will depend on resource and activity in Woking etc.
At least you are not in the OR “we will build everywhere” category that could take until 2031.
The new map does actually make sense:
Green: Majority of properties will be built commercially
Blue: Some of the properties have been built by funded projects or smaller programmes
Grey: Properties unlikely to be built without funding
Northumberland seems to have been forgotten
At freaking last, we’re in a build programme! I’m guessing it’ll still be 2026, for this major suburb of a city of 130,000 to finally get fibre (after CityFibre conked out). But yes, the new map is absolutely useless, since it’s so vague as to be pointless. Most of the country is suddenly green, but it means nothing. Wouldn’t it be amazing to have projected timescales, even just to the nearest 6 months? How about it, Openreach?
you can click on each area and gives a brief summary as to where its at
The reason introduction of FTTP is so behind the curve in the UK compared to other countries, is that HMG and OFCOM used the wrong model, deliberately, who knows ? This “Error” allowed any old under-capitalised provider and his dog to bid and also allowed them to cherry-pick where, when and how they were going to supply.
And, what are you seeing now, the age old practice of financial insolvency and company administration procedures as some of the smaller under-capitalised providers, who may have had eyes bigger than their stomachs, go ponto and are either merged, taken-over or go to the wall.Chaos capitalism . . with the usual suspects as beneficaries .. insolvency practitioners and financiers.
So, delays all round.
You can’t use this method to introduced something as nationally strategic as internet, unless your intention is to hold the economy back and make excessive distributions to your “friends”.
An indication of HMG intent might be inferred from the fact the HS2 is funded directly by the taxpayer . . Grant-In-Aid . . . whereas FTTP . . Woollies pick-and-mix finance.
As fupped-up as the HS2 programme is (Mainly courtesy of government cut-backs) just imagine if the contractorisation regime that is being applied to FTTP had been applied to that.
Of course that system, being “Shot-gun” wide and obviously so democratic, mitigates the politicos from responsibility should it go “Tits”
Constantine (Falmouth) is already wired since four years ago. But they will only connect the most distant houses below 10mbps as they can get a government grant for that. The rest of the village can only gaze at the fibre on the poles passing by our houses. We can’t actually connect to it…
Somewhat similar here, 7% of our large village covered
Sucks to be them in a way as Wessex Internet have got a grant to cover the rest
Wonder if we will magically appear in scope once they survey, that is how we got FTTC, only when another provider was sniffing around 😉
Still no sign of my town where Fibrus and Virgin Media have just built… their loss I guess!
Hi all,
Does anyone know how to concretely tell if this announcement meets the 25m premises passed by 2026 goal?
From what I can tell, they’ve only announced c.3,500 Exchanges but list a total of 5,000 exchanges. This reporting seems to suggest they’re able to meet the 25m premises though. Cheers!
You may be overlooking that Openreach currently runs c. 5,600 UK exchanges, but only c. 1,000 of these exchanges – the Openreach Handover Points (OHPs) – are used to provide nationwide coverage of modern “fibre broadband” based services (FTTC, FTTP and G.fast).
My local exchange is on the list above but when I check the open reach page there is no mention of it at all in progress or coming soon
I can see Warlingham is on the list above for planned fibre installation by December 2026, but do you have a more specific date for when this will be deployed in this area? We currently have to rely on Virgin Media for fast internet speeds but they are more useless than a chocolate teapot. We are dealing with daily outages; rude call centres; and a total lack of compassion, competence, integrity, ownership and resolution.
We are only 6 miles outside of Croydon, one of the biggest urban areas in the country, and are beyond desperate for openreach lines to be an option so we can leave Virgin. Please are you able to provide any more information?