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The importance of telecoms in modern life has been highlighted in the 2021 Queen's birthday honours list with Clive Selley awarded a CBE.

Openreach announced late in May that its roll-out will include a further 3 million premises of FTTP in rural areas, so we look at the rural urban split as it stands today.

In the BT Group results there is the big news that Openreach is planning to build a further 5 million premises of FTTP by December 2026 on top of its original 20 million ambition.

The expected update to the transparency lists that Openreach update each quarter has taken place and the 27 new areas are confirmed.

Our report on Openreach FTTP build progress set a record for the amount found and we have broken that again. With 204,301 premises versus the previous month of 192,905 premises added.

The move from analogue phones to an IP based phone network in the UK is a step closer with the announcement of the next set of 77 exchanges where a stop sell order will apply in 2022.

KCOM has been busy expanding across the East Riding of Yorkshire but lack of retailer choice often gets mentioned, a new pilot from the operator may reduce that concern.

Back in April Openreach said they had built FTTP to 530,000 premises and three weeks later our tracking is showing a footprint of 530,986 premises passed.

The number of premises passed by CityFibre with its FTTP roll-out has reached 506,143 premises.

Openreach is to invest £100 million to pass 100,000 more premises with FTTP in Northern Ireland and take on another 100 apprentices.