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The uncertainty of who will be the Openreach CEO is over as a candidate from within the BT Group has now been announced.

The Openreach CEO has announced his intention to move back into the financial sector by becoming CEO of Nationwide in Spring 2016.

Cheshire is one of the latest parts of the UK to announce the amount of claw back that will be re-invested and used to keep the network build going in the area.

At the recent presentation to the City and collective press on Tuesday BT and Openreach talked quickly about a new VDSL2 variant Long Reach and the potential to provide 24 Mbps at distances of 2km. We now have the infographic to share and have run the maths on what it could mean for the UK.

The BT Group has outlined its plans for the next few years with a plan to bring speeds of 300 to 500 Mbps to some 10 million premises and the majority of the UK by 2025. Also a commitment to re-investing claw back dividends into pushing superfast coverage further will take superfast coverage beyond 95%.

It is not clear yet what the precise problem is but broadband users in East Lothian appear to be suffering dropped or corrupt packets causing issues with streaming and potentially corrupt firmware updates.

So in an attempt to see how bad things are this news item was composed and written in what is said to be one of the worst places for broadband in London and across Europe according to some.

The testing of G.fast is underway and the first speed test from a G.fast connection has appeared.

The regulation of the BT Group has dominated the Ofcom telecoms agenda for as long as Ofcom and Oftel have existed, but does Ofcom have the legal power to force a separation?

The three trial areas of Gosforth, Huntingdon and parts of Swansea for the G.fast trials are now known and a few more snippets of the trials are appearing.