Openreach is delivering full fibre broadband to 38 rural UK communities through Project Gigabit, aiming to connect 290,000 hard to reach properties. The initiative is already boosting business, education and local economies, with potential to add £66 billion to UK GDP and support remote work.
Nokia has joined forces with Openreach to deploy its ONE Network platform to enhance fibre network automation across the UK. By leveraging Nokia’s Altiplano and NSP controllers, Openreach can automate its fibre services.
Enreach UK has launched Enreach Contact Anywhere, a Fixed-Mobile Convergence (FMC) solution that integrates fixed-line and mobile services. By using one number and one device, this innovative solution addresses the increasing need for efficient mobile usage within businesses, boosting productivity and simplifying professional communications across various industry sectors.
Enreach, Europe’s leading provider of converged contact solutions has today announced that Bertrand Pourcelot, Enreach for Service Providers’ Chief Executive Officer, and Tonny Siemons, Enreach’s Business Development Lead for Cloud IT, will each join panel sessions at the upcoming CCA European Summit. The event takes place 19-21 June 2024 at the Hotel Palacio Estoril in Estoril, Portugal.
Broadband infrastructure provider Openreach has unveiled plans to extend its full fibre broadband services to 517 additional locations across the UK, bringing fibre-to-the-premise (FTTP) to an extra 2.7 million homes and businesses. This ambitious rollout includes 400,000 homes in rural areas, highlighting Openreach’s commitment to bridging the digital divide.
A recent market study by INCA (Independent Networks Cooperative Association) and Point Topic reveals that alternative network builders in the UK have collectively expanded fibre infrastructure to more premises than BT’s Openreach unit. By the end of 2023, UK altnets had reached 12.9 million premises with fibre, exceeding Openreach’s coverage of 12.8 million.
Enreach for Service Providers, part of Enreach, the fast-growing European contact leader, has today announced a partnership with Netherlands-based CloudCTI, which delivers cloud-based CRM and ERP integrations to telecom service providers and resellers. The agreement will provide customers with access to 200+ CRM integrations. It will also support the customer experience (CX), analytics features and AI roadmap within Enreach UP, which combines, UCaaS, CCaaS and productivity tools in a fully converged contact solution, optimised for desktop, IP phone or mobile devices.
Openreach, UK’s primary broadband provider, is proposing legislations that’ll speed up fibre broadband installations in Multi-Dwelling Units (MDUs). This initiative is due to the lengthy authorizations processes, known as wayleaves, resulting in significant cost. However, critics argue this could infringe on property rights.
Enreach, Europe’s leading provider of converged contact solutions, announced that it has expanded its Voice for Microsoft Teams features to customers in 80 countries. The extension is the result of Enreach’s partnership with SIPPIO, which delivers Microsoft Teams services to customers around the world.
Based on Enreach UP solution, EUPCloud is a fully managed secure solution hosted by Enreach. Partners no longer have to worry about managing updates and hosting the solution, and can focus solely on packaging and marketing their own branded offering. EUPCloud covers all existing use cases of unified communications.
