Paul Wheelhouse, MSP, Minister for Energy, Connectivity and the Islands, joined the Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband team and Openreach to celebrate the latest fibre broadband connection in the Whitsome area in the Scottish Borders.
Family with eight children living in the one millionth home passed awarded free full fibre broadband for a year Build in 12 further locations to begin during the next 12 months, taking the total to 38 Engineers have already installed around 2.6 million kilometres of fibre – enough to get to the moon and back three times.
An Openreach training centre in Bradford is celebrating a successful first year with news that more than 5,500 engineers and new recruits have been trained at the facility since its official launch in March last year
Cavers that come to South Wales are to benefit from a new digital safety net, thanks to the efforts of local Openreach engineers.
An engineering firm in Kirklees, specialising in keeping the highways, traffic and transportation on the move, is experiencing life in the fast lane for itself since being upgraded to superfast broadband.
Thousands more North Tyneside homes and businesses can now access high-speed, fibre-based broadband as a direct result of the multi million pound Digital Durham programme.
A Northumberland firewood company is turning up the heat this Christmas thanks to an upgrade to superfast, fibre broadband.
Wales is in the midst of a radical technological transformation which has the potential to provide a step-change in the way we live our daily lives and boost our economy.
As a director for Openreach with responsibility for rolling-out superfast broadband across Wales, Ed Hunt takes a look at how the project is going and what we can expect next.
