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BT Openreach to recruit 16-year-olds
News BT is to take on 400 apprentices, some aged as young as 16, to be trained as telecoms engineers at Openreach. Openreach is the company that was split off from the rest of BT last year — at the insistence of the regulator Ofcom — to help other...
[November 3, 2006, 11:26]
BT Openreach unsure of fibre demand
News BT Openreach is more concerned about the level of demand for next-generation broadband access than the regulation surrounding it, a senior executive has told ZDNet.co.uk. The technological community is well aware of the benefits fibre can bring...
[September 28, 2007, 13:43]
Openreach slashes prices in unbundling push
News BT Openreach has made it cheaper for other broadband operators to take control of its telephone lines, in a bid to boost the process of unbundling the local loop. Openreach, the access services division of BT, was formed at the start of this year...
[June 6, 2006, 12:00]
Openreach releases ISP pricing for London fibre trial
News In a statement aimed at other service providers, posted on the BT Openreach website on Friday, the company announced that access to its Generic Ethernet Access Fibre to The Premises product would cost ISPs between £175 and £255 per annum for each...
[September 22, 2009, 16:46]
Ofcom: Well done BT, but...
Blog According to Ofcom's latest annual report on BT Openreach, the split-off bit of the former incumbent is running according to plan. However, the regulator seems to think that Openreach still needs incentives to improve its products and repair things...
[December 10, 2007, 15:29]
BT fibre trial to start in August
News Openreach, BT's local access network business, is currently deploying fibre to Ebbsfleet Valley, where 10,000 new homes are being built. This is our first deployment of fibre rather than copper to residential customers on a new-build site," said...
[January 10, 2008, 14:54]
BT: We weren't forced to play fair
News BT launched its Openreach access division on Wednesday with a bullish denial that it had been forced into the move because of pressure from regulators and rivals. Openreach, which will maintain BT's telecoms infrastructure, must ensure that all the...
[January 12, 2006, 9:25]
Market debates BT's access division
News Ben Verwaayen, chief executive of BT Group, on Thursday revealed details about the company's creation of a new services division, openreach, and the telco's successful avoidance of a break-up at the hands of regulator Ofcom.
[September 23, 2005, 9:10]
Well done BT!
Talkback Well done Openreach/BT! To start with even if you phone line is out sourced to, for example, talktalk your phone line is still serviced and maintain by OPENREACH. Myles, if you have a phone line 'owned' by BT this is a very poor uneducated response.
[November 6, 2006, 16:04]
Ofcom revises Openreach rules
News Openreach is the division of BT that was split off to give other providers equal access to the UK's telecommunications infrastructure — a move prompted by Ofcom in order to make the communications market more competitive.
[March 20, 2008, 16:51]
BT poaches C&W exec to drive openreach
News BT has lured a senior executive from rival Cable & Wireless to help run openreach, the new access division that is meant to bring fair competition to the UK telecoms sector. The ten-strong openreach executive team was announced by BT on Tuesday...
[September 27, 2005, 16:25]
BT launches access services division
News BT will launch a new access services division called Openreach on Wednesday, which could bring more competition to Britain's telecoms sector. Openreach will oversee the maintenance of BT's national telecoms network and the installation of new...
[January 11, 2006, 11:25]
Ofcom approves landmark BT restructuring
News In a separate announcement at the same time, BT revealed that its new access services division would be called "Openreach". Communications regulator Ofcom has accepted BT’s offer of widespread changes to the way it operates its local network and...
[September 22, 2005, 10:10]
UK reaches a million unbundled lines
News BT's Openreach division, which provides installation and maintenance services on behalf of other telcos, is responsible for the LLU process. Openreach's chief executive Steve Robertson said, "This is a fantastic achievement for the whole of...
[November 9, 2006, 14:14]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It is with great pleasure that I hand over today's diary to Graeme 'Scoop' Wearden, who has reclaimed his middle name in order to go out and do some good old gumshoe journalism at the birth of BT's Openreach.
[January 13, 2006, 17:05]
BT bets on business broadband for rural consumers
News We're really excited about the potential of BET to extend broadband to the remaining not-spots," said John Small, managing director of service delivery, BT Openreach. Openreach is currently trialling BET in Inverness and Dingwall in Scotland and...
[September 15, 2009, 17:22]
Action demanded over BT unbundling problems
News Openreach, BT's network operating arm, had promised to improve its delivery quality by September, and Black noted in his update that this had clearly been missed. A spokesperson for Openreach assured ZDNet UK that it was "committed to getting the...
[October 10, 2006, 12:00]
Analysts wary of 'underperforming' BT
News The results, covering April to June this year, will be the first to include indications of the success of Openreach, the spin-off designed — at the regulators' insistence — to allow BT's rivals equal access to exchanges.
[July 26, 2006, 17:35]
UK hits critical broadband target
News Steve Robertson, the chief executive of Openreach — the business unit established within BT to manage the LLU process — said on Monday that the achievement was "a tribute to a great deal of hard work and investment, by the whole Openreach team and...
[February 5, 2007, 12:22]
BT results defy analysts
News The results were the first to show the performance of Openreach, the division split off to allow rivals direct access to BT's exchanges. Openreach saw a drop in internal revenue (i.e. BT Group's first-quarter results for the current financial year...
[July 27, 2006, 14:55]
