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Fibre on Demand which is priced out of the reach of the average consumer, has been put on hold for a couple of months as Openreach copes with the fibre roll-out.

The City of London may be seeing VDSL2 in basements, but North Yorkshire now has a new breed of BT street cabinet to house the small VDSL2 DSLAM for FTTrN and provide superfast speeds to smaller clusters of properties.

The annual price changes from Openreach for voice and LLU broadband services have been announced with the changes coming into effect in April 2015.

The DLM system on the Openreach network generally gets little coverage because there is very little to set for the providers, and its aim is to run an error free FTTC connection even if this means slowing connection speed slightly.

As the various county level projects progress we are seeing more variety in how services are delivered, and one community in Devon has foregone the fibre based backhaul to utilise a microwave link between the fibre cabinet and the exchange.

Warwickshire has announced the cabinets that will be upgraded as part of its BDUK project, amounting to another 8,000 homes and businesses across the project area.

G.FAST or FTTdp is small step closer as is opening a lab to push product development and test commercial solutions until ready for commercial deployment.

It is a long way from guaranteed to happen but Openreach appears to be exploring a new product, that will let providers order a fibre service without the usual coupling to a voice line rental product.

Self install FTTC has been around for a while and so many people have this type of install that many may not have realised the product was not commercially launched.

For a few hours some people who do not have access to FTTC services from Openreach got their hopes up, but a series of retraction emails are going out as it appears a new bulk email system was used to send some incorrect emails.