Category: Wholesale

Those areas of the UK where Gigaclear has installed its full fibre to the home network are set to gain more choice in who to use for the retail provider on the service, as Gigaclear have announced a partnership that opens up wholesale access to their network.

The commercial roll-out of superfast services from Openreach still has a few tricks up its sleeve and one of these has now been dealt with the announcement of another nine exchanges which will be offering fibre based broadband.

Lamp posts and other bits of street furniture that already have power to them make ideal spots for location radio kit for both Wi-Fi and other uses.

With the rise of OTT TV services many of us are consuming more and more bandwidth each month, and it appears Entanet has recognised this need with new BT based packages that offer unlimited usage allowances.

A 220 Mbps fibre broadband option is now on its way to those parts of the UK where Openreach has rolled out its FTTP service with orders being accepted from 1st June 2013.

The Openreach fibre optic platform is continuing to grow at a rate of 100,000 to 200,000 premises a week, and has passed another milestone.

The UK is moving in the right direction and after these pilots around half the UK will have the option of full fibre to the home after Spring 2013.

With the BDUK projects focusing on hitting 90% coverage figures and the possibility of no improvements until 2015 some communities are finding ways to bypass the long wait for better broadband.

2013 looks set to be one step closer to a wires-only VDSL2 service, as Openreach is to start a pilot where the provider supplies all the hardware.

The BT Wholesale line checker has had a make over to present information in a less wordy fashion.