Openreach hiring thousands more engineers
But will that prevent another burning effigy? BT's Openreach is to hire 3,500 trainee engineers in a bid to support its 'full-fibre' proposals for Britain. The former stated-owned telco monopoly claimed its "largest recruitment drive" comes off the back of its plan to connect three million premises to full fibre by 2020, up 50 per cent on its previous goal. That programme is expected to cost up to £6bn, which BT hopes to recoup by increasing service providers' line rental charges by £7 per month, a cost that will undoubtedly be passed onto consumers. The firm is also asking service providers to move all customers onto the fibre network. Currently just 3 per cent of the UK has full-fibre penetration. Since its legal separation from BT , Openreach is an independently governed division of the BT Group. Shortly after the lon...

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