Full fibre broadband heading to Warwick in huge Openreach upgrade

By James Smith

28th May 2024 | Local News

Openreach is bringing full fibre to another 230,000 homes (image via Openreach)
Openreach is bringing full fibre to another 230,000 homes (image via Openreach)

Full fibre heading to more than 230,000 homes and businesses – including Warwick, Kenilworth and Bedworth.

Full fibre broadband is heading to a further 36 West Midlands towns and villages, as part of a huge broadband upgrade by Openreach.

They join more than 1.25 million homes and businesses across the region who already have access to the UK's most reliable broadband technology, thanks to Openreach's work.

Across the UK, the company has published updated plans to build full fibre broadband to a record 517 more locations – covering a further 2.7 million homes and businesses.

Kasam Hussain, regional director for the Midlands, said: "This is a huge infrastructure success story across the Midlands. No company is building faster or further in Europe, that we're aware of.

"We won't be stopping either. We plan to build even further across the region, to more cities and towns, and our most rural communities.

"And our engineers, of which more than 3,500 live in the region, are doing this at a rapid pace - despite this being a hugely complex engineering project.

"Our fibre checker has the latest information about our work in your area. It's also worth noting that upgrades aren't automatic. Once full fibre is available where you live, you'll need to place an order to get connected and we'll do the rest!

"Openreach's network offers the widest choice of providers such as BT, Sky, TalkTalk, Vodafone and Zen – which means people have lots of choice and can get a great deal."

The work is all part of Openreach's £15 billion project to upgrade the UK's broadband infrastructure - making gigabit-capable technology available to 25 million homes and businesses by the end of 2026, including 6.2 million in harder to reach more remote and rural areas.

More than 4.7 million homes and businesses across the UK have already upgraded to Full Fibre and demand continues to flow, with more than 50,000 orders being placed each week.

Openreach has also refreshed its online map and postcode checker to give 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 build programmes, whilst the postcode checker continues to offer the most personalised view of the connectivity available to an individual home or business.

Further updates will be provided as any additional locations are added in future.

     

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