Brighstone, Godshill and Yarmouth are all set to benefit from Openreach’s rollout of full fibre connectivity, it has been announced today (Tuesday). Openreach has confirmed that it is upgrading a further 35 cities, towns and villages (that’s 517 telephone exchanges), opening up an enhanced broadband connection to an additional 250,000 homes and businesses across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. The 3 Island villages and those further afield will join more than 200,000 homes and businesses across the county which already have access to the Openreach full fibre network, which operates overhead from pole to pole. Openreach has also refreshed its online map and postcode checker to give a clearer, regularly updated view of its plans and progress between now and 2026. The map now shows the levels of current and future expected full fibre coverage as of today, taking data from all of its build programmes, whilst the postcode checker continues to offer the most personalised view of the connectivity available to an individual home or business. Martin Williams, Openreach’s regional director for the South East, has said:
“This is a huge infrastructure success story across the region. No company is building faster or further in Europe, that we’re aware of. “We won’t be stopping either. We plan to build even further across the region, to more cities and towns, and our most rural communities. “And our engineers, of which 4,800 live in the region, are doing this at a rapid pace – despite this being a hugely complex engineering project. “Our fibre checker has the latest information about our work in your area, but only 37% of premises across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight which can order a new ultrafast service have done so, as upgrades aren’t automatic. Once Full Fibre is available where you live, you’ll need to place an order with a provider of your choice to get connected and we’ll do the rest!!”
The work is all part of Openreach’s £15 billion project to upgrade the UK’s broadband infrastructure – making gigabit-capable technology available to 25million homes and businesses by the end of 2026, including 6.2million in harder to reach more remote and rural areas.
Please – can it be done without any more roadworks?
Definitely no roadworks… You didn’t read the article did you… BT say it’s all ‘pole to house’. That = no road/path digging.
Erm,slighty missed the boat there,wightfibre have all the customers,and BT will not be cheaper!
The end game is to control people, hence rolling out all this
B@llocks, you don’t think they care if we have fast broadband
Wightfibre uses the BT openreach network
No more trashed lawns/poor installs pavement to house by wightfibre. Pole to house is far better and probably cheaper as the infrastructure is already there ( pavement trunking/poles. Plenty of people in our locality getting fibre to the house from BT.
Wouldn’t use BT for free
You do if you’re on ‘norma’l broadband.
Rubbish, Wight Fibre did a great job on installation at our house, you wouldn’t even know where they had to dug up. Super fast fibre too, no dropouts or glitches. Go with Wightfibre NOT (B)loody (T)errible.
Im wighfibre last 20 plus years never an issue would not go to them my family member nothing but trouble with there system..
Then you haven’t seen the sh** jobs they do at some premises like my son’s house. It’s a joke. You can see the green trunking in a few places- just brush aside the stones,lay the trunking, brush the stones back. It’s supposed to be 250mm below ground level…
Then you haven’t seen the sh** jobs they do at some premises like my son’s house. It’s a joke. You can see the green trunking in a few places- just brush aside the stones,lay the trunking, brush the stones back. It’s supposed to be 250mm below ground level…
And it took them 3 days to get my neighbours working – they just didn’t have a clue why 🙁
Your son is lucky
they never got mine under ground or on the ground. Its stretched that tight about 3 inch of the ground
if someone slips and stands on it they will have to re install
wf even used black tape to join the green trunking as they didn’t have a long enough piece with them
You do realise that wightfibre use bt ducting and pole network dont you?
And Planks are doing the work, no thanks.
not where i am..
Good means wight fibre have competition!!
They are not reliable once the appointed is booked they get their funding from the government, then let you down last minute!!!
The moment they advertised Island based, island staff etc
It’s a NO from me, that says a lot.
Fancy letting Caulkheads loose.
You really are a wanker..
The truth always hurts, keep crunching the carrots.
Lol
Have to say, that’s not been my experience.
Although, like most of us, I found the constant digging up of the roads a nuisance, the actual installation and service once it’s installed has been excellent.
They turned up when they were supposed to and had it up and running quickly, and it’s been a good service ever since.
It’s the people digging the roads who are the problem, not the service engineers.
really? been absolutly fantastic for me last 20 years..cannot fault them..
When’s Newport getting done?
Maybe finishing what they’ve already started .. I live in brading and it still isn’t available on my road
Wightfibre have been digging up the roads in my location for the last three years.
Dig a bit, fill it in, dig a bit more.
The last round saw the worst disinterest in the safety for local residents from them. The “workers” blocked off roads without warning, glared at you if you were waiting to get access to your property in a car and if you were walking you took your life in your own hands as temporary footpaths were not clear if they were made at all.
‘iss off early Friday meant they left their bottles, rubbish, empty cans of marker just thrown in the unprotected holes they had dug for the whole weekend,
I would not use Wightfibre if I was paid… how to totally disenfranchise their customers should give them a gold award.