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Openreach has announced details of support for multicast across its FTTC and FTTP product. Multicast allowing a single data stream to be broadcast to multiple properties.

CityFibre Holdings have secured investment from Citigroup to help it fund the company's plans to build metro based fibre infrastructure in UK cities.

With the significant market power that Openreach has, Ofcom operates a charge control system, a change in the notification process means that the EU is now notified after the UK.

It seems BT has found a way that it believes is viable for deploying fibre to the premises that will allow it to open its whole network to the technology.

Openreach has launched its Fibre Voice Access product, that will utilise the two telephone sockets on the Openreach Optical Network Termination in homes with FTTP.

A pilot from Openreach that will reveal more line data to providers to help them judge whether a line is good enough for IPTV looks set to improve the information providers have on the state of a FTTC line.

This weekend has seen Openreach updating the information on estimated line speeds for its fibre to the cabinet products.

Another 178 exchange areas now have the Openreach fibre services to look forward too.

Openreach has improved the way in which consumers can try and figure out if superfast broadband is available in their area, or whether it will be coming soon.

Ofcom have granted a permanent extension to an exemption that BT must connect 20CN DSLAMs through a handover distribution frame to ensure equivalence of input between BT and LLU providers.