Category: Wholesale

Working as an Openreach may not be the best paid job in the world, but an extra 1,600 jobs in the UK is to be welcomed, and it might mean less reliance on third party contractors by Openreach.

The issue of passed versus connected is a contentious subject for some, but passed is something of an important step towards getting a high number of connected premises.

Reports are emerging on the forums that for some areas the BT Wholesale checker is warning of no capacity with upgrades expected as of 7th April 2014.

The wholesale arm of BT has a major impact on the performance of some eight million broadband connections in the UK, so it is worrying to see performance issues getting worse rather than better.

Ahead of the final announcements from the Ofcom market review which is expected to be three months late Openreach has announced a round of price rises that are in line with the expected changes.

With Olivia Garfield set to leave Openreach, the new CEO has finally been named and will join Openreach in around the middle of February.

While the Openreach FTTP roll-out may have been scaled back from the original 10% aim of 2009, the operator is still the largest FTTP operator in the UK.

The Fibre on Demand product which builds on the fact that the FTTC roll-out is partly building a GPON FTTH network is expanding the number of exchanges it is available at.

The range of choice and price of getting FTTC installed is set to reduce as the self-install option and pricing has been confirmed to come into effect on 31st December 2013.

Liv Garfield as the head of Openreach has overseen a rapid expansion in the availability of fibre based broadband across the UK and has officially announced that she will be leaving as the Openreach CEO.