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Full list of new Openreach exchange areas - what it means for bills

People should check with their service provider to see if they can upgrade now.

Full Fibre broadband reaches three quarters of Sheffield homes and businesses

Residents of a Sheffield housing estate say they are waiting to hear about council plans to tackle their parking headache nine months after they believed their pleas had been successful

Residents renew problem parking plea nine months after council promised help

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UK telecommunications boom opens doors for job seekers amidst industry expansion

Couple urge Sheffield Council to trim tree ‘causing mayhem’

Millions face a broadband shake-up - here’s how to check if you’re affected

Millions of BT and Sky customers face internet shake-up

999 call operators strike today - how emergency calls will be affected

John Devlin 29/07/2022. GLASGOW. BT workers on the picket line in Glasgow. CWU members in Northern Ireland and across the UK, including 999 call handlers, are to take part in further strike action tomorrow

CWU October strikes: over 40,000 BT and Openreach staff walk out

Dozens of BT workers in Sheffield joined 40,000 other staff across the UK today as part of a large scale walkout over pay.

BT strikers collecting food donations

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Last year, Openreach says it hired 600 female trainee engineers – more than double the previous year - partly due to language experts changing job adverts and descriptions to make them ‘gender neutral’.

Openreach launches recruitment drive

4,000 jobs and 3,000 apprenticeships will be created this year (Photo: Getty Images)

Openreach is creating 4,000 new roles this year in huge job boost

The road has been closed off this morning

Busy side street off Ecclesall Road is closed off for 'emergency works'

The BT box.

Residents’ worry over BT box next to garden fence amid concerns it could give ‘i...

Around 150,000 more homes and businesses across South Yorkshire are set to benefit from a broadband boost in the region of £60m[1] thanks to Openreach – the UK’s largest broadband network provider.

£60m Boost in South Yorkshire for ultrafast full fibre broadband

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What3words to help Openreach pinpoint network damage in Yorkshire and the Humber

BT plans to provide high speed internet to 20m UK homes - but will it cost customers more? (Photo: Shutterstock)

BT plans to provide high speed internet to 20m UK homes - but will it cost custo...

BT faces the threat of its first national strike in over 30 years as workers are set to vote on industrial action in a row over jobs (Photo: Shutterstock)

BT staff could strike across the UK for the first time in more than 30 years - w...

Are you desperate to change your provider? (Photo: Shutterstock)

Switching broadband provider should be 'less hassle' says watchdog - everything ...

CityFibre starts in Darnall on February 8 and aims to offer every premises in Sheffield full fibre broadband in five years.

£110m fibre broadband network for Sheffield

UK-wide superfast programme pushed broadband speeds up a gear for 5.5 million homes. (Picture: Shutterstock)

Upgrading to superfast broadband could boost your home's value by up to £3,500

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'Unacceptable' internet outage leaves Sheffield people cut off for six days over...

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This is where you need to live to get the fastest broadband

A view towards Fargate. Picture: NSST-26-03-20 Empty Sheffield 7-NMSY

Openreach pledges to keep Yorkshire connected

How did your provider rank? (Photo: Shutterstock)

These are the worst broadband providers in the UK - how does yours rank?

How did your provider rank? (Photo: Shutterstock)

Vodafone and Virgin Mobile named worst broadband and mobile providers by Ofcom -...

Older and poorer people need help with digital

Older and poorer people need help with digital

Pictured celebrating fibre broadband, in the Paece Garden, Sheffield are left to right: Robert Thorburn (regional director, Openreach), John Mothersal (chief executive of Sheffield City Council) and Councillor Olivia Blake (deputy leader of Sheffield City Council). Photo by Les Gibbon.

Broadband speeds up to ten times faster are on the way to Sheffield

Stock: Sheffield City Centre.

Faster internet speeds set for Sheffield and Doncaster

Openreach.

Time to get entries in for Sheffield City Region Apprenticeship Awards

The telecoms cabinet, Green Lane, Sheffield. (from left) artist, Simon Wigglesworth-Baker, organiser, Craig Wolstenholme and regional; director north, Robert Thorburn

Art attack on broadband cabinets in Kelham Island in Sheffield

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Art attack on broadband cabinets in Kelham Island in Sheffield

Councillors Ben Miskell and Jack Scott with MP Louise Haigh beside a graffiti-covered telecommunications cabinet in Sheffield

Telecoms giant gets message over graffiti in Sheffield

Work to widen Chesterfield Road is due to be completed in June

Major road-widening to speed up buses on busy Sheffield street nears completion

Edlington Lane, Edlington. Picture: Google

Reward offered to catch vandals who caused Doncaster phone and internet black ou...

Homes and businesses in Edlington were left without phone and internet services due to vandalism

Reward offered for information over damage to telecoms network in Doncaster

Peter and Margaret Wolstenholme.

Compensation paid after 'shoddy workmanship' blamed for phone disruption in Shef...

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