Category: Wholesale

Northern Ireland is set to see a significant jump in fibre-to-the-cabinet deployments from BT which should push them up the next-generation broadband penetration tables.

In some cases, a fibre-enabled area by BT may see 60% of an exchange left on old DSL technology as BT selectively deploy fibre to only specific cabinets.

Openreach release proposed pricing details for duct and pole sharing products to be launched later in the year.

41 new exchanges have been announced to receive FTTC based broadband from BT, with users in these areas likely to be able to get these faster services from Spring 2012

BT have been accused of breaking away from net-neutrality through the launch of a new wholesale system to deliver Video content more efficiently to users

People with longer lines will also benefit from BT's next generation deployments as the company announces that it will connect people up with a minimum speed of 5Mbps. Areas that already have fibre-to-the-cabinet are unlikely to see this replaced by fibre-to-the-home any time soon though.

BT Openreach have announced a further stage of exchanges which will receive fibre upgrades delivering FTTC or FTTP technology to bring faster broadband into homes.

Openreach have announced a trial to allow exchanges to be nominated by ISPs for fibre-based broadband enablement.

BT have passed the 15 million milestone of broadband connections using its telephone network, around 10 years after broadband first became widely available in the UK

BT Wholesale have over 5 million broadband users now connected over the 21C network using WBMC.