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Nearly 8,000 further local homes and businesses will be able to benefit from new investment BT today announced plans for an expansion of high-speed fibre broadband in the London Borough of Barnet. Openreach, BT’s local network business, will make fibre available to an additional 7,779 localhomes and businesses in the next two years, taking the company’s total coverage for fibre in the borough to nearly 145,000 premises. The new investment in Barnet is part of a city-wide programme that will increase fibre coverage in every London borough. The roll out will increase overall fibre availability across London, taking all networks into account, from around 90 per cent[1] to around 95 per cent of premises. The Openreach fibre network is already the largest in London, covering nearly three million homes and businesses. BT is spending more than £3 billion on Openreach’s deployment of fibre across the UK, and the work in Barnet is part of an additional £50 million that the company...