This latest announcement confirms Openreach’s plan to extend its build from 12 to 18 months, supporting its plan to achieving its target of reaching four million homes and business by the end of March 2021. The roadmap covers 103 locations across the UK including Aberdeen; Ayr; Aughton; Bradford; Billericay; Brentwood; Basingstoke; Brighton; Balham; Chorley Wood; Derby; Hatch End; Lichfield; Molesey; Northampton; Newbury; Norwich; Newcastle (N.I.); Ormskirk; Portrush, Portstewart, Rickmansworth; Royal Tunbridge Wells; Stanecastle; Swindon; Thames Ditton; Tonbridge; Watford; and Wickford.
"Full-fibre broadband provides a reliable, future-proof, consistent and dependable service that will be a platform for economic growth and prosperity throughout the UK for decades to come,” said Clive Selley, Chief Executive of Openreach. "We’re now building at a massive scale. Every 28 seconds we pass a home or business with our new future-proofed full fibre network. This has given us ever greater confidence in the level and accuracy of whatever we announce – which is why we’ve now laid out our build plans right up to the target delivery date of four million premises by March 2021.
Earlier this year Openreach raised its target for full fibre connections from three to four million premises by March 2021, but it wants to go much further – with an ambition to reach 15 million by the mid-2020s and ultimately the majority of the UK if the right investment conditions are in place.
“We also want to ensure we give our stakeholders – like council leaders, planners and MPs – the best view of where and when we intend to build so we can work together to build as rapidly as possible and help encourage people to take up the technology when it arrives,” continued Selley.
Formed as part of its ‘Fibre First’ programme, which began in 2018, Openreach has doubled its FTTP footprint to more than more than 1.8 million UK homes and businesses, resulting in close to 2.6 million km of fibre.
| Date of Openreach announcement | Town, city or borough | |
February 2018 | 1. Birmingham 5. Leeds 2. Bristol 6. Liverpool 3. Cardiff 7. London 4. Edinburgh 8. Manchester | |
June 2018 | 9. Exeter | |
September 2018 | 10. The Wirral | |
October 2018 | 11. Coventry | |
November 2018 | 12. Nottingham | |
November 2018 | 13. Belfast | |
December 2018 | 14. Swansea | |
January 2019 | 15. Bury 16. Barking & Dagenham 17. Bexley 18. Croydon 19. Greater Glasgow | 20. Harrow 21. Merton 22. Redbridge 23. Salford 24. Sutton Coldfield 25. Richmond Upon Thames |
March 2019 | 26. Salisbury |
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April 2019 | 27. Armagh 28. Bangor 29. Ballymena 30. Greater Belfast 31. Coleraine 32. Derry-Londonderry 33. Enniskillen 34. Lisburn 35. Larne 36. Newry 37. Newtownards 38. Stockport |
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July 2019 | 39. Antrim 40. Barry 41. Bathgate 42. Ballyclare 43. Ballymoney 44. Ballynahinch 45. Banbridge 46. Broxburn 47. Broadstairs 48. Bromsgrove 49. Burgh Heath 50. Chelmsford 51. Carrickfergus 52. Cookstown 53. Craigavon 54. Doncaster 55. Downpatrick 56. Dungannon 57. Epsom 58. Ewell
| 59. Gtr Belfast (Carryduff & Castlereagh) 60. Kilmarnock, E.Ayrshire 61. Limavady 62. Magherafelt 63. Newcastle 64. Omagh 65. Ramsgate 66. Saintfield 67. Strabane 68. St Albans 69. Solihull 70. Slough 71. Sheffield 72. Torquay 73. Whitburn, W. Lothian 74. Worthing
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October 2019
| 75. Aberdeen, 76. Ayr, 77. Aughton, 78. Bradford, 79. Billericay, 80. Brentwood, 81. Basingstoke, 82. Brighton, 83. Balham, 84. Chorley Wood, 85. Derby, 86. Hatch End, 87. Lichfield, 88. Molesey, 89. Northampton
| 90. Newbury, 91. Newcastle (N.I.) 92. Norwich, 93. Ormskirk, 94. Portrush 95. Portstewart 96. Rickmansworth, 97. Royal Tunbridge Wells, 98. Stanecastle, 99. Swindon, 100. Thames Ditton, 101. Tonbridge 102. Watford 103.Wickford
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