Openreach is helping more than 140,000 homes and businesses across Cardiff to access full fibre broadband, thanks to its nationwide full fibre rollout, with around 80 per cent of properties across the city connected to ultra-fast speeds.
Thu, 23/01/2025 - 11:31
Openreach is continuing to roll out full fibre to rural areas, including villages in the Tyne Valley where 1,500 residents are now connected just months after joining the company’s Fibre Community Partnership (FCP) programme.
Last April, Openreach encouraged people living and working in Bardon Mill, Ovington, Riding Mill and Wark to apply for free Government broadband vouchers, which can be used to help secure faster broadband speeds and greater reliability, alongside building a customised, co-funded full fibre network.
Louise Thompson, Openreach’s Regional Engagement manager, said: “It usually takes around 12-18 months from a Fibre Community Partnership Programme being agreed to the first premises ‘going live’ but this has been turned round in less than nine months, which is a huge achievement.”
