Peter Bell

Network Technology Director at Openreach

After receiving a doctorate in Mathematics at Newcastle University, Peter embarked on a career in telecommunications. He has worked for BT for just over 272 years, during which time he has had a major influence on all of BT’s deployments of Broadband.

Peter was instrumental in the successful rollout of the Openreach Next Generation Access network (VDSL and Gfast) and led the design and development of this platform from its inception.

Currently, he is part of the thought leadership team driving the strategy, design and development and implementation of Openreach’s FTTP network. He has driven the network technology that has allowed Openreach to rollout fibre to 5m homes and will reach 25m homes by Dec 26.