BT, Vodafone and Sky customers to receive major broadband speed upgrade – is your town on the list?

OPENREACH has revealed the 28 locations set to receive a broadband upgrade as part of a huge full fibre plan.

The BT-owned firm supplies much of the broadband infrastructure across the UK.

But waves of areas are still stuck with the old copper technology.

Openreach is phasing out copper for speedy Full Fibre to the Premises (FTTP).

This uses pure fibre optic cables that connect you straight to the exchange, meaning data can travel a lot faster.

It’s less affected by busy peak time congestion, so you can easily stream a 4K movie without constant buffering.

Most internet providers use Openreach’s cables for households to get online, not only BT itself by others like Sky and Vodafone too.

The 28 places that will be switched to full fibre only from next year are:

• Four Oaks
• Dysart
• Newcastle West
• Biggleswade
• Caldy
• Allerton
• Eltham
• West Drayton
• Sutton
• Prestonpans – Port Seton
• Upper Largo
• Berwick
• Knutsford
• Malton
• Stamford
• Cleish Hills
• Drumclog
• Landrake
• Bickleigh
• Bolney
• Crosswell
• Abbotts Ann
• Stichill
• Burravoe
• Tonbridge
• Tenterden
• Dartmouth
• Staines

The move means internet service providers will no longer be able to sell products using the legacy copper wires after a 12 month notice period, reports the Mirror.

Openreach said: “As Openreach rolls out our ultrafast full fibre network across the country – it makes no sense to keep lots of different old technologies running – it’ll be very expensive, replacement parts are no longer being made, and it won’t allow the business to push forward with plans to give the UK world class connectivity as quickly as it would like.”

Openreach has a postcode checker to see whether you can benefit from FTTP already.

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