Openreach full fibre footprint hits 50% coverage mark

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.

CityFibre has completed the primary-build of its full fibre network in Ipswich, allowing over 70,000 homes in the region access, around 98% of the town’s properties – making it one of the best-connected locations in the UK.

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.

BT has signed a contract worth nearly £10m to deliver full fibre broadband access to nearly 1,800 hard-to-reach sites across the Swansea Bay City Region as part of a project to support levelling up in key areas where a connectivity gap exists.