Talk:Openreach

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"the company is structured so that British Telecommunications plc (BT) is a wholly owned subsidiary" can't be right, surely? Dadge (talk) 19:20, 21 September 2012 (UTC)

Poor Quality Article
For a company of such importance to the Telecom and Internet industry in the UK this article is surprisingly poor. I will try and redo the article over the next couple of days and add a lot of missing and relevant information. --Thsyrus (talk) 12:15, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Openreach.gif
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BetacommandBot (talk) 18:06, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
 * ✅ The Islander 19:19, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Openreach's address
Openreach's publications give its address as 81 Newgate Street, London EC1A 7AJ which is the address of BT Group. I would have more confidence that Openreach is "treating the rest of BT on an equal basis as other operators" (quote from BT Group article) if it had a separate address. Does anybody know the address of Openreach's offices? Biscuittin (talk) 22:04, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Quote from Openreach's corporate brochure: "While Openreach remains part of the BT Group, we are a separate business with our own headquarters, identity, financial reporting and commercial principles". So where is this headquarters? Biscuittin (talk) 22:15, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
 * According to Companies House Webcheck, there is a company called Open Reach at 16 New Street, Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire DY13 8UW but it is described as "dormant". Is this the same company? Biscuittin (talk) 22:22, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I think it is misleading to describe Openreach as "a separate business" (see above) when it appears to be a division (business) rather than a subsidiary. Biscuittin (talk) 22:36, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

The headquarters are Judd Street, London - they are a BT Group Business however so rightfully, their registered company address headquarters are that of Bt Group - 81 Newgate Street, London.

External links modified
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Conflict of interest
I'd like to thank user:Maudael who helpfully spotted and reverted an expansion of this article "edited from a BT office IP without attribution - this is against Wikipedia rules" (as it says in the edit summary of the reversion). There are one or two edits by others inevitably caught up in the reversion and I'll have a go at salvaging anything worthwhile. Polly Tunnel (talk) 18:31, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

In accordance with Wikipedia practice I'll put the reverted references here in case anybody without WP:COI wants to do anything with them.

Polly Tunnel (talk) 14:02, 8 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I have used reference 12 in the article. Polly Tunnel (talk) 17:34, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

Openreach engineers not technicians.
The article incorrectly states that Openreach engineers are actually technicians. This is incorrect. Openreach engineers have the job title "Customer Service Engineers". This is because the engineers build and maintain a structure, in this case the wires, nodes, duct, exchanges and network terminating equipment that make up the telecommunications network. This fits well with the dictionary definition of an engineer, a technician meanwhile is defined as someone who simply looks after technical equipment. Housebunny321 (talk) 20:30, 9 December 2016 (UTC)


 * I am concerned about a WIRE thatis low, across my driveway, the septic tank vehicle touch it last year, there was two drivers, so he had to lift it. They will be here in 6 weeks, it's very dangerous, my home is next to A38. The driver is usually on his own.   I have made three phone calls in the past year and got no where. I'll send where I live if someone could phone me.
 * Possibly ASAP 2A00:23C5:6CBE:9401:74EE:8751:41DB:89EE (talk) 13:42, 28 June 2024 (UTC)