Openreach Expand UK FTTP Broadband Builds in 11 Locations and Regions
Network operator Openreach (BT) has today confirmed that they recently started building their full fibre (FTTP) broadband network across 11 pre-planned UK locations and have, separately, also reached a new access agreement with the Perth and Kinross Council (PKC) in Scotland to cover 2,000 flats and apartments.
In terms of the eleven locations, Openreach’s engineers have recently started work to deploy their new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across parts of Tiptree, Farnham Common, Stourbridge, Sunderland, Crewkerne, Weedon, Brotton, Markfield, Waltham, Belper and Dunoon.
Meanwhile, the additional flats and apartments in PKC will join more than 33,000 homes and businesses across Perth and Kinross that already have access to the operator’s new full fibre network, which helps to form part of the 23 million premises across the UK that have already been covered. The deployment in PKC will reach flats across 250 buildings, including in Perth, Crieff, Blairgowrie and Pitlochry.
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Gary Brown, Openreach MDU Manager, said:
“We’re thrilled to be working with Perth and Kinross Council on this significant broadband upgrade. Working together is a crucial step in making sure that residents across Perth and Kinross have access to some of the best broadband available anywhere in the UK. The upgrades are not automatic, so once full fibre is available, tenants should contact their broadband provider, place an order to get connected, and we’ll do the rest.”
Councillor Grant Laing said:
“This investment will help to reduce digital inequality, strengthen our local economy, and ensure that more communities can fully benefit from the opportunities that digital access provides. We warmly welcome this progress and look forward to seeing the positive impact it will have across Perth and Kinross.”
All of this work supports Openreach’s up to £15bn investment in deploying full fibre technology to cover 25 million UK premises by the end of December 2026. After that, there’s a further ambition to reach up to 30 million premises by 2030, but the build plan for the 2027-2030 period has yet to be announced.
Mark is a professional technology writer, IT consultant and computer engineer from Dorset (England), he also founded ISPreview in 1999 and enjoys analysing the latest telecoms and broadband developments. Find me on X (Twitter), Mastodon, Facebook, BlueSky, Threads.net and Linkedin.
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build plan for the 2027-2030 period has yet to be announced
I do feel sorry for those who are still waiting longer!
its a real problem – I had to fight for mine.
a real nightmare. Hopefully things start rolling on with this.
Great, I live in a flat in Perth – roll on FTTP!
Let’s hope they have a better deployment method in Perth than the VERY limited MDU deployments I’ve seen around here — a drop cable thrown out a hole in the wall down to a splice point (looks to be one box per two flats max) around knee/waist height, 3x P-clips at said splice point, then the feed cable either snaking around the external to a CBT ~3m off the ground or down a length of galv capping if there’s an existing chamber within ~2m of the external wall.
“I do feel sorry for those who are still waiting longer!” Indeed, they stopped 50 yds short of mine, all for the want of 10ft of duct and now we are “out of budgetary scope for the foreseeable future”. I doubt I will live long enough to see it happen.
My sympathy, here in Aberdeenshire Mintlaw area I will also never see FFTP before I die of old age.
I live in the centre of Warwick about 200 metres from the exchange. Rediculous that they have no build plan in place. Broadband sucks here but we can send men to the moon. Doesn’t seem like they care that much.ive tried my upmost to gain information but just keeps saying build plan not in place
Still waiting in Dollar. “Building on your area” for nearly 2 years!
Another BT customer known as AMG waiting for Openreach/BT to install FTTP. As comments on already I too will be dead before it’s installed and another Stat Women, men and children will be living on the moon, I wonder if there FTTP will be installed before mine AMG