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Openreach completed a trial to test a system that can identify High Resistance faults easier, and reduce the amount of engineer hours spent and end-user time wasted in identifying them.

Fujitsu have connected the first triallists to their 1Gbps capable fibre-to-the-home network, and Openreach have announced they will be putting live their duct and pole sharing products (PIA) which enable this later this month.

There has been a great deal of talk about Openreach and its pricing for sharing infrastructure holding back superfast broadband roll-outs, hopefully the new pricing will provide some certainty and accelerate the various plans for rural superfast roll-out.

300meg broadband will be available through fibre-to-the-home services from BT in the spring, with those on fibre-to-the-cabinet deployments benefiting from a speed doubling to 80meg.

BT have announced a further 114 exchanges which will be enable for fibre-based broadband services by Autumn 2012.

TalkTalk warn that BT are looking to rebuild their monopoly through the roll-out of next-generation broadband services which will use fibre-based broadband to offer access.

BT Openreach have announced 3 candidate locations from which it intends to select a fibre only exchange (FOX) for a trial.

CityFibre Holdings looking to the end of the year to get a live service up and running on the fibre-to-the-home network in Bournemouth.

BT Openreach has announced 4 locations that it is considering for its Fibre Only Exchange trial.

The amount of ADSL2+ provider choice is set to increase in some 800 exchanges between now and 2013.