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Northern Ireland has superb coverage of FTTC but the rural nature of some areas leads to the gap between the fibre available and superfast speeds being large, and it seems some FTTP may be used to bridge this gap.

Openreach is set to expand its vectoring trials starting in February and expanding to 100 DSLAMs by the end of March 2015.

The US may prefer to repurpose the definition of the word broadband and rewrite history, but the European method is to add nice words to the front and thus we now have BT talking about ultrafast broadband as public trials and roll-out dates have been announced.

G.INP appears to be live and in the armoury of Openreach for dealing with errors caused by noise, in addition to the old fall back of interleaving.

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.