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Reliable and fast broadband across the UK with FTTP

The UK Government’s Future Telecoms Infrastructure Review (FTIR) calls for connection of 15 million premises to full fibre broadband networks by 2025. The government plans to provide FTTP to the entire UK by 2033 and wants the majority of the population to have 5G coverage by 2027. By 2025, 15 million premises should have full-fibre broadband. However, at the end of 2018, only 6% of homes in the UK had access to full-fibre connections.

Established in 2006 following an agreement between BT and UK telecoms regulator Ofcom, Openreach plays a vital role in meeting this demand. The company is extending its ultrafast broadband footprint using Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) and G-Fast technology. The goal is to provide faster, more reliable services across the country, including rural areas. FTTP should be available to three million premises by the end of 2020, to be extended to 10m premises by 2025. The company has pledged to invest a massive £12 billion investment to connect over 20 million premises over the coming years and thousands of premises are being connected with FTTP each week. Open reach is currently collaborating with its telco customers on identifying the best way to migrate from copper to fibre infrastructure across the UK, and eventually shutting down the analogue network.

Open reach has expanded their ‘ultrafast broadband’ ISP network to cover 5.81 million UK premises (up from 5.4m in the first quarter of this year). This includes 2.98m FTTP connections and 2.83m on G.fast. BT has been strongly focusing on the strong progress being made by Openreach in rolling out FTTP  technology across the United Kingdom. Openreach intend to stop selling copper products to 1.2m premises  from June 2021. By then, Ultrafast services (including FTTP and Gfast) will be available to more than 75% of premises in these locations.

Download the FTIR