Category: Wholesale

Northern Ireland is way ahead of the other nations and regions of the UK in terms of the amount of FTTP available and Openreach has indicated it will keep going until its coverage reaches 60% of premises.

Our monthly updates on how fast and where Openreach is building its FTTP service continues with a bigger than usual monthly total.

Openreach has completed its full fibre build in Salisbury which means the path is clear towards a big switch over to full fibre between December 2020 and December 2022.

With the limited changes to the lockdown rules in England and possible changes in the other nations over the next few weeks Openreach has issued an update on dealing with faults and installs during the pandemic.

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.