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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.

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.