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We presume when Openreach says it has reached six million homes they really mean premises, since their GEA-FTTP service is also available to a number of businesses.

The old record of 302,000 premises in a month still stands, but this month was still the second highest monthly increase we've seen.

Our previous record for the amount of Openreach FTTP found in any month was 219,000 and with the new figure of 302,074 premises this record has been smashed.

Residents of Clitheroe will probably have noticed the wave of Openreach and contractors vans over the last few months which means full fibre is available to a large part of the town.

After a slow month previously for the Openreach FTTP roll-out the pace seems to have picked up again and our tracking has just broke the 5 million premises mark too.

The Openreach offer to waive connection charges on VDSL2 services is welcome but appears to fall short of offering the same for FTTP.

Two villages in Oxfordshire where we have just found Openreach FTTP available are in our database now.

We track what is going on across some 5,551 Openreach exchanges and report on the monthly overall figures and are sharing today the exchanges with the largest improvement in FTTP coverage during August.

Spaldwick in Cambridgeshire now has FTTP available after 18 months of an Openreach Community Partnership.

Pending Ofcom throwing a big spanner in the works with regards to setting the price of the GEA-FTTP 40/10 service Openreach has published details of a price plan that will run until 2031.