UK's Openreach said it is investing £1.7 million in a new fibre training centre in Bolton.
The new facility is part of a wider plan to educate the next generation of digital engineers bringing vital broadband services to communities across the North West and beyond.
Trainees will test their skills in a state-of-the-art 770 square metre replica street, built from scratch to recreate the real network in the outside world. Nicknamed ‘Open Street’, the school will enable engineers to experience a typical working day - from laying cables to building joints and making repairs, working underground or overhead, climbing telephone poles and installing new services inside customers’ homes.
Around 2,500 new and existing Openreach engineers from across the North of England, as well as further afield, are expected to train at the centre this year alone.
