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Openreach: Product Launch
Openreach announced 112 additional exchange areas (25th tranche) entering 'Stop Sell' phase for legacy copper services, bringing total to 1,572 exchanges covering ~15.4M premises. Full fiber (FTTP) rollout accelerating toward 25M premises by end-2026 and 30M by 2030. PSTN analog retirement deadline: Jan 31, 2027.
Source: The Register
The leadership read
Openreach's launch shifts talent demand before revenue catches up. In Telecommunications, taking a release to scale rewards product leaders with a commercial edge and operators who build the post-launch motion. Watch whether Openreach backs it with senior go-to-market hires across EMEA — that separates a platform move from a one-off.
Market context: MitchelLake's Talent Market Index sits at 104.6 (Hot), down 1.9 on the prior month; EMEA hiring signal is running easing (-2.2pts).
Openreach: 1 signal in the last 90 days — in line with the Telecommunications median of 1 across 45 tracked companies; 0.1% of MitchelLake's Oceania signal flow; 2 tracked across 125 days.
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Airties →Airties introduced Airties Lite, an AI platform for ISPs to manage retail-purchased Wi-Fi gateways and reduce churn
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Orange →Orange and Morrison infrastructure investor announced a 50/50 joint venture to build a data center company in France with €3 billion investment targeting 400 MW capacity (10x Orange's current capacity)
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BT Group →BT Group has forged a new JV with Verizon and is executing record-scale fibre infrastructure upgrades across UK. CEO Allison Kirkby highlighted the partnership as key to BT's digital backbone strategy, with 514,000 FTTP connections added in Q1 alone and 5G coverage at 77% population reach.
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