Category: Wholesale

Openreach is inviting communications providers to a workshop to discuss a trial of a system that could be used to improve the consumer experience during FTTC installs.

Not everyone wants the ultrafast speeds of 330 Mbps that FTTP from Openreach has as its highest speed, and an offer for the 80 Meg service is also available.

While the Openreach FTTP product does not have a very large footprint at this time, it is available and is probably the largest full fibre network in the UK.

BT Wholesale is starting the process of retiring its IPStream Connect service by 2014, with it stopping to take orders for new services on 425 exchanges that currently provide a 20CN and 21CN broadband service later this year.

It took BT some years to get ADSL rolled out, and the same is the case with the fibre services, which is leading to rise in questions about where and when.

As the first step towards making activation of FTTC services easier and hopefully cheaper, Openreach is to under take a trial to look at how micro-filters affect end-user speeds.

Openreach has announced a trial period for a 330/30 Mbps full fibre (FTTP) service, and an 80/20 Mbps service to match the FTTC product speeds. A soft launch being expected in June 2012.

The FTTC and FTTP fibre products from Openreach are now available to one third of premises in Cornwall, and people are signing up at a rate of 250 per week.

Openreach is boosting the number of engineers to help it keep to its superfast broadband roll-out timetable.

BT Wholesale is trialling the L2 lower power mode for its ADSL2 and ADSL2+ services, which has the potential to reduce the carbon footprint of broadband services.