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Reports that Openreach engineers have sometimes not left or offered data extension kits to help people locate their FTTC modem in a handy location have increased recently.

The numbers of traveling Openreach engineers is set to increase by around another 400 as Openreach goes on another recruitment campaign.

A promotion from Openreach where FTTC installs cost £30+VAT when installed at the same time as a telephone line, is likely to be extended until the end of November if Ofcom grants approval.

Fluidata will introduce up to 50 more ISPs to the Digital Region after it announced it would be able to offer superfast broadband from the South Yorkshire area.

Ethernet services are generally delivered over copper or fibre, with pretty hefty installation fees, it seems Andrews and Arnold are at the leading edge of utilising FTTC as the last mile for these business grade services.

While leased line and ethernet pricing is not consumer friendly, for the dedicated capacity it gives, it is ideal for linking mobile masts and business parks. Openreach has published proposed pricing for its services in this area.

The price that mobile operators, and firms looking for connectivity between two points in the UK may be set to drop if a consultation on charge controls for ethernet and leased lines bears fruit.

Openreach is looking at expanding its Major Service Outage announcement system to include incidents of cable theft and third party damage to the network.

Openreach has announced the eight areas that will take part in FTTP on Demand trials between now and the products launch in 2013.

BT is criticised over its use of partial fibre solutions, but at least this represents an improvement on the existing ADSL/ADSL2+ services across the UK.