Openreach is celebrating the milestone of reaching 90% coverage of its full fibre rollout across Northern Ireland – with the region becoming the first within the Openreach UK network to hit this target.

Freedom Fibre has now connected over 20,000 homes across the north west and West Midlands.
The network is live in cities and towns including Stoke-on-Trent, Crewe, Leek, Urmston, Northwich and Whitchurch.
The altnet’s services are available via a range of ISP partners such as LilaConnect, the retail ISP owned by Freedom Fibre Group alongside other providers such as TalkTalk, Squirrel, Fusion Fibre, MTH and Beebu.
Marie Danby, Customer Operations Director at Freedom Fibre, said: “Thanks to our hard-working team, the cooperation of communities and local leadership, we have been able to successfully deliver our high-speed network cost-effectively whilst maintaining our high level of customer service.”