Around 283 trainee engineers will be hired across the North West as part of the largest recruitment drive ever undertaken by Openreach.
The announcement follows news that Openreach will accelerate plans to build more ultrafast Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) broadband across the country.
The 283 North West roles, part of more than 3,500 being recruited across the UK during the next 12 months, will be located in Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Lancashire.
Trainees will join the UK’s largest team of telecoms engineers working to expand, upgrade, maintain and install new services over Openreach’s national broadband network.
Openreach’s ‘Fibre First’ programme will deliver expanded ‘full fibre’ FTTP networks in up to 40 towns, cities and boroughs, setting it on a trajectory to reach ten million British premises by the mid-2020s.
It has committed to making FTTP available in three million British homes and business by the end of 2020 and, if the conditions are right, intends to go significantly further, bringing the benefits of FTTP technology to the majority of homes and businesses in the UK.
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