Category: Wholesale

Openreach has released the list of 118 areas it will issue its warning notice that old analogue phone network services will not be sold in from June 2021 onwards.

Some people are worried about the size of the waiting list issue where a VDSL2 cabinet is waiting on extra line cards being added or some other expansion. We report on the current situation across the UK and regions.

The pricing that will apply to the new 500 and 1000 FTTP tiers at the BT Wholesale level is now known and this sets the minimum price that providers such as BT Consumer, EE, Plusnet and others who use BT Wholesale can charge.

The date when semi affordable Gigabit FTTP services will be available from a retailer using the Openreach FTTP network are getting closer as the pricing for the Gigabit service that comes into effect in March 2020 has been published.

Openreach is shifting through the gears on its FTTP roll-out and as part of its plans to ensure take-up does not stall there are a set of price changes of up to 30% and new pricing on the 500 Mbps and Gigabit tier to be announced later in 2019/20.

The Openreach Fibre First roll-outs and Twickenham exchange is at the 10,000 premises mark for premises passed by full fibre.

We last shared detail of how much Openreach FTTP was down to new build premises, Fibre First, gap funding or just plain commercial back in June so a month later we have an update for everyone.

The Openreach Community Fibre scheme that uses a mixture of community money, vouchers and investment from Openreach has signed up its 930th community with 590 already live.

Entanet who is owned by CityFibre and provides wholesale access to the CityFibre network has launched a new service aimed at the business sector with a guaranteed symmetric 200 Mbps bursting to 1 Gbps.

Our tracking of the G.fast roll-out has passed the 1.5 million premises mark with new pods on another eleven exchanges.