Category: Wholesale

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.

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.