Network access provider Openreach (BT) has today revealed the top five London Boroughs for coverage of their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network, which sees Barking and Dagenham topping the table with more than 8 out of 10 premises now able to upgrade to the new service.
The boroughs of Bexley, Redbridge, Hillingdon and Merton then round off the remaining top five slots, although Openreach hasn’t provided any coverage figures for those. The network operator’s new full fibre network is currently available to more than 1.5 million homes and businesses across London. But London is home to around 3.8 million dwellings and Openreach’s coverage is thus somewhere around 40%, which could be better.
Elaine Hope, Openreach’s Partnership Director for London, said: “This Full Fibre upgrade is a huge boost for London. Better connectivity helps communities thrive and supports people to work from home easily, keep in touch with their loved ones and build connections and opportunities. And we’re not stopping yet; our investment across the city continues at pace with build continuing at forty locations across Greater London”.
The new service, once live, can be ordered via various ISPs, such as BT, Sky Broadband, TalkTalk, Vodafone and many more (Openreach FTTP ISP Choices) – it is not currently an automatic upgrade, although some ISPs (e.g. TalkTalk) have started to do free automatic upgrades as older copper-based services and lines are slowly withdrawn.
The 40 locations in London where Openreach are currently building
Albert Dock
Bowes Park
Canonbury
Deptford
Enfield
Goodmayes
Greenford
Hainault
Harrow
Hornchurch
Hounslow
Kingston
Leytonstone
Mitcham
Mortlake
New Malden
New Southgate
North Finchley
North Wembley
Palmers Green
Pimlico
Putney
Romford
South Harrow
Stamford Hill
Teddington
Tottenham
Upper Holloway
Upton Park
Vauxhall
Walthamstow
Walworth
Wembley
West Wickham
Wimbledon