You can now use What3words to report the exact location of damaged broadband cabinets, telephone poles and overhead wires across the UK.
Openreach has teamed up with the website, which divides the whole planet into 57 trillion three-metre squares, giving each a unique three-word code.
For example, Openreach’s London headquarters is recorded as ‘lock.factor.tall’, while Dennis Publishing, home to Computeractive, is ‘fuels.rods.bolts’.
You can find your own code by visiting https://what3words.com, then typing your address in the box at the top left, pressing Enter, then selecting the correct suggestion (see screenshot).
Writing online, Openreach said What3words will prove especially useful when customers need to report problems in hard-to-reach and rural areas, helping its 35,000 engineers pinpoint the location.
The easiest way to get a code is through the app (www.snipca.com/38250).…
