Category: Wholesale

The debate over whether G.fast is just Openreach wringing a few more years life out of its existing local loop is a fun one, but the question is whether the public care so long as they get better broadband?

Openreach has finally joined the twitter revolution.

The Ofcom mandated LLU kick started the rush to cheap broadband in 2004-2006 and the regulator is hoping that changes to PIA will do similar in terms of encouraging the rolling out of pure fibre access.

Gigaclear has won four of the six lots in the second phase of projects in Devon and Somerset with £62.25 million of funding to deliver 35,000 premises.

It looks as if some background changes to the public Openreach fibre checker website have caused it to a go a bit made and report cabinets as live incorrectly.

ADSL2+ has offered 3dB target noise margin profiles for a while and it looks like Openreach is going to roll-out this out in 2017 for VDSL2.

Feel the need for speed, then if lucky to be in a GEA-FTTP area, the wholesale price for the GEA-FTTP 1 Gigabit service is £80/m.

One possible reason some providers have not sold the GEA-FTTP product range to date has been the need for a dedicated cablelink to connect their network to the Openreach data feed in the handover exchange.

The dozen or so premises in a single postcode in Staffordshire has clubbed together and via multiple sources of funding should get FTTP from Openreach in 2017.

In a wide ranging conference call the Openreach CEO Clive Selley has outlined some changes on the way including delivering FTTP to even smaller new build estates.