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On top of the PSTN switch off in 2025, there is a longer term plan to shrink the Openreach exchange footprint from around 5,500 exchanges to something like 1,000 to 1,200 exchanges between 2030 and 2040.

CityFibre is celebrating being granted wayleaves to 1 million premises by local authority and housing associations. CityFibre say this will help support an equitable rollout of full fibre.

Devon and Somerset is not far off the UK average at 51.89% FTTP coverage, i.e. just one point behind but levels of superfast coverage still mean 5% of the around 820,000 premises still don't have access to a superfast service.

The last month has seen us add 236,113 premises to the Openreach full fibre footprint.

Our package search and Availability API may confuse some people who have a FTTC service, as on exchanges where Openreach has triggered its copper restriction date we are no longer showing FTTC available for order.

The switching off of the venerable analogue phone system run by Openreach is getting closer and as part of that another 119 exchanges have been addded to the list where restrictions on new phone lines will apply before the final switch off.

The island of Lismore in Scotland is set to leap from ADSL speeds to full fibre skipping the partial fibre step completely.

Richard Tang, CEO of Zen Internet has interviewed Clive Seller, CEO of Openreach on the Equinox 2 pricing changes and fibre build

New funding for toob will allow them to expand across the south of England, increasing their coverage to around 300,000 premises.

BT report a 1% revenue drop compared to last year, with 55,000 job cuts to come by 2030 - largely in the network build/maintenance section. FTTP build-out is continuing at an average rate of 54,000 premises past per week.