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The Openreach Fibre On Demand product when launched many years ago got a lot of interest but due to the volume of other work Openreach was undertaking the pricing increased substantially but new pricing that takes effect in February 2018 may reverse that.

A co-investment deal has been reached with Grosvenor Britain & Ireland and Openreach that will see a mixture of FTTP and FTTC brought to over 130 sites in the heart of the West End of London.

The various speed boosts such as the low noise margin and G.INP have been appearing on Huawei VDSL2 cabinets for some time and we have seen the difference it makes, so news that the low noise margin is set to be given a while for ECI cabinets is good news.

The cost of the cable that links the Openreach infrastructure to the providers backhaul network in an exchange may be a one off cost but with bandwidth utilisation growing reduced prices should ensure providers stay on top of avoiding this short piece of fibre being the bottleneck.

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.