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Openreach has announced that it is expanding its G.fast roll-out to 500,000 premises now and 1 million by the end of the year.

Full fibre is the future and the Openreach GEA-FTTP footprint is growing and it seems as part of this they are to run a 12 month special offer to encourage providers to sell the new 330 Mbps download with 50 Mbps product.

Estimating the number of premises that the USO will need to help in 2020/2021/2022 is no easy task, but Ofcom is having a go and has also run the numbers to give an idea of the cost for everyone.

Parts of Scotland have been slated for either commercial or Digital Scotland gap-funded FTTP for a while now, and adoption of new techniques by Openreach my help to speed that up.

Using techniques that are more commonly used by Gigaclear and B4RN has ploughed on installed FTTP and VDSL2 across much of Northumberland.

For consumers a price cut of 7.6 pence per month is unlikely to be passed on, but if you have millions of customers this becomes a nice cost saving.

Openreach is switching on more G.fast pods which means standard rather than trial or pilot products are getting ever closer.

Long Reach VDSL is being tested in more locations to gain further understanding of what it can achieve in the real world outside of lab testing.

Extra speed for little or no work is always welcome and it appears that a trial on lower target noise margins for VDSL2 users is set to go national on 20th March.

The Connecting Devon and Somerset project has been one of the more contentious ones, and with BT not getting any of the phase II work, the level of completion for the first phase I is easier to account for.