Virgin Media rumoured to be considering Openreach competitor
Virgin Media is sitting firmly in the middle of the rumour mill, with reports suggesting the team is considering opening-up its network as a wholesale connectivity competitor to Openreach.
Virgin Media is sitting firmly in the middle of the rumour mill, with reports suggesting the team is considering opening-up its network as a wholesale connectivity competitor to Openreach.
UK fixed-line wholesaler Openreach has launched an industry consultation into the switch to ‘full fibre’, which would involve retiring the legacy copper one.
A sparkling new training centre in Peterborough and 3,000 fresh-faced trainee engineers, 1,600 of which are newly created roles, gives weight to the long-overdue fibre rollout ambitions of Openreach.
During yesteryear, CityFibre was known for moaning for the sake of moaning, but in securing a debt package of £1.12 billion, the firm’s ambitions are starting to look very real and very interesting.
With fibre becoming an increasingly politicised topic, fixed infrastructure wholesaler Openreach decided to hang out with a couple of Scottish politicians.
Openreach has continued to push forward in its GFast mission, announcing it will connect another one million homes in 81 areas across the UK by next summer.
Measures BT undertook in 2005 to placate Ofcom over its wholesale operations are officially no longer relevant, so it doesn’t need to bother.
Yesteryears rumbling story was the enforced separation of BT and Openreach, and while this might have been nothing more than a thinly veiled show, Ofcom might look at the success of Chorus for future inspiration.
Sky UK has reportedly become the first customer of a new discount deal from Openreach to encourage use of Gfast technology.
Openreach as announced a number of discounts for wholesale customers, in an effort to encourage the telcos to focus more on superfast and ultrafast services.
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UK fixed line wholesaler Openreach has announced both Nokia and Huawei have been selected to help it with the next phase of its fibre rollout.
In spite of heavy pressure to raise its fibre game, BT’s supposedly autonomous wholesale unit Openreach has proudly unveiled a major extension of its Gfast programme.
Ofcom has released its first progress report on the legal separation of BT and Openreach, commenting progress is being made, but there still might be too much meddling going on.
The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer has said he wants to see full fibre to 15 million premises by 2025 but the CEO of Openreach thinks 10 million is more realistic.
Six months after proposing a compromise between full dark fibre access and full managed service, Openreach has formally launched ‘virtual dark fibre’.
After receiving no criticisms from the European Commission, Ofcom is moving forward with measures to regulate the broadband wholesale market in a bid to drive competition and network upgrades.
The UK government has announced yet another scheme designed to boost fibre penetration but this one might actually be useful.
UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has had another go at tweaking the system with the stated intention of getting more fibre laid around the country.
Openreach, the UK’s dominant fixed-line wholesaler, has vowed to ramp up its fibre-to-the-premises roll-out to hit three million premises by the end of 2020.
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