{"id":41618,"date":"2025-05-01T10:19:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T09:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=41618"},"modified":"2025-05-01T10:19:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T09:19:53","slug":"bts-openreach-builds-fttp-broadband-to-18-3-million-uk-premises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/05\/bts-openreach-builds-fttp-broadband-to-18-3-million-uk-premises.html","title":{"rendered":"Openreach Builds FTTP Broadband to 18.3 Million UK Premises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National network access provider <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-46 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/openreach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"openreach\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.openreach.co.uk\">Openreach<\/a> (<a class=\"shortlink shortlink-145\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"BT\">BT<\/a>) has confirmed that their Fibre-to-the-Premises (<a class=\"shortlink shortlink-110 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"fttp\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/broadband_fibre_optic.php\">FTTP<\/a>) network, which offers broadband speeds of up to 1800Mbps to UK homes via hundreds of ISPs, has now covered 18.3 million UK premises (Ready for Service). This is now growing at a rate of 1.1 million premises (RFS) per quarter.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The official data shows that the operator&#8217;s <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-110 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"fttp\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/broadband_fibre_optic.php\">FTTP<\/a> network alone can now reach 55% of UK premises (out of 33 million total premises), which at country-level changes to 50% in England, 50% in Scotland, 67% in Wales and a whopping 90% in Northern Ireland where they&#8217;ve always been fairly strong.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bq2\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> The operator has also connected 6.5 million customers to the new network and thus delivered a take-up rate of 35% (orders for the service increased by 26% during 2024 \u2013 c.68k orders every week via over 300 ISPs), which rises to over 50% in their older cohorts.<\/div>\n<p>The operator is currently investing <strong>up to \u00a315bn<\/strong> to expand the coverage of this full fibre network to reach 25 million UK premises by December 2026 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/05\/openreach-name-517-new-uk-locations-for-fttp-broadband-rollout.html\">here<\/a>), which includes around 6.2 million premises in rural or semi-rural areas. On top of that, they\u2019ve also expressed an ambition to reach up to 30 million by the \u201c<em>end of 2030<\/em>\u201c, although this is partly dependent upon a favourable outcome from <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-133 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"ofcom\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.ofcom.org.uk\">Ofcom<\/a>\u2019s next <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/03\/ofcom-set-out-changes-to-boost-uk-broadband-in-2026-market-review.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Telecoms Access Review 2026<\/a> (note: it looks like they&#8217;ll get what they want on this).<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"shortlink shortlink-46 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/openreach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"openreach\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.openreach.co.uk\">Openreach<\/a> currently has 15,000 people focused on their full fibre deployment and the average per premises build cost continues to hover around the \u00a3280 mark or roughly \u00a31.2bn per year. The new service, once live, can be ordered via various ISPs, such as <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-145\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"BT\">BT<\/a>, <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-86\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/bskyb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Sky Broadband\">Sky Broadband<\/a>, <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-59\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/tt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"talktalk\">TalkTalk<\/a>, <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-90\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vodafoneuk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"vodafone\">Vodafone<\/a> and many more (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/04\/isp-options-on-openreachs-uk-fttp-broadband-network-2024.html\"><strong>Openreach FTTP ISP Choices<\/strong><\/a>) \u2013 it is not currently an automatic upgrade, although some providers have started to do free automatic upgrades as older copper-based services and lines are slowly withdrawn.<\/p>\n<p>One catch in all this is that Openreach did lose 707,000 broadband lines to rivals during 2024 and some analysts expect this to accelerate in 2025 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/04\/ubs-predicts-openreach-to-lose-800k-uk-broadband-lines-in-2025.html\">here<\/a>). But most of those losses continue to come from areas where they&#8217;ve yet to deploy FTTP (i.e. those covered by copper-based solutions, such as <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-121 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/adsl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"digital subscriber line\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/broadband_DSL.php\">ADSL<\/a> or <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-120 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"fttc\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/broadband_cable.php\">FTTC<\/a> \/ <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-118 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/vdsl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"vdsl2\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/broadband_cable.php\">VDSL2<\/a>), which is why the operator&#8217;s strategy is to &#8220;<em>build as fast as we can to fill in those areas<\/em>&#8220;, said CEO Clive Selley to Richard Tang of <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-144 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/zen_internet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"zen internet\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.zen.co.uk\">Zen Internet<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aTQTGYb-FgQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National network access provider Openreach (BT) has confirmed that their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, which offers broadband speeds of up to 1800Mbps to UK homes via hundreds of ISPs, has now covered 18.3 million UK premises (Ready for Service). This is now growing at a rate of 1.1 million premises (RFS) per quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[474,56,69,34,98],"class_list":["post-41618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-bt","tag-fttp","tag-bt-openreach","tag-statistics","tag-zen-internet"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@ispreview\/114431839207570471","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Openreach Builds FTTP Broadband to 18.3 Million UK Premises - ISPreview UK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"National network access provider Openreach (BT) has confirmed that their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, which offers broadband speeds of up to\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/05\/bts-openreach-builds-fttp-broadband-to-18-3-million-uk-premises.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Openreach Builds FTTP Broadband to 18.3 Million UK Premises - 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