Ofcom has unveiled its masterplan to reduce the UK’s reliance on Openreach, allowing CSPs greater access to BT’s ducts and poles to encourage rivals to lay their own ‘full-fibre’ networks.
In light of Ofcom’s attempts to prize Openreach from BT, the wider telecoms industry has reacted. Some with glee, some with scepticism, and some with cynicism.
Ofcom has finally decided that BT is to separate from its Openreach business. The regulator has, after much deliberation, concluded the long running saga, and it’s not good news for BT.
With the quarterlies crazy season over and done with Telecoms.com had a look back over the last couple of weeks to decide who the winners and the losers were out of the European telcos.
BT’s wholesale business unit Openreach has announced it will more than double the speeds available over its ultrafast Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network.
Despite the BT bashing which has been going on for what seems like forever, it would not seem to have had a material effect on the revenues of the organization.
Speaking at Broadband World Forum, Openreach’s CEO Clive Selley gave a rundown of what the country needs to do to remain at the top of the digital economy.
New research from Ovum, commissioned by BT, has predicted G.fast technology will be serving 30 million subscriber homes and businesses around the world by 2021.
As BT’s negotiations with Ofcom falter, embittered Openreach customer Sky recruited the Telegraph newspaper for propaganda help.
In a kingdom not so far away there lived an evil dragon by the name of Openreach, which was the sworn enemy of Britannia’s internet.
UK fixed-line alpha BT has announced it will be buying a bunch of shiny G.fast kit from Huawei and Nokia to help with its ‘ultrafast’ broadband rollout.
If anyone needs a friend right now, it’s BT. Luckily, it seems to have found a new BFF in the unlikely form of rival network owner Virgin Media.
After last week’s angry exchange of letters, UK ISPs including BT and Vodafone have been making a point about addressing rural broadband coverage.
Possibly the only more consistent source of telecoms news than the announcement of a new 5G partnership is the ongoing spat between BT and its wholesale customers.
UK MP and former Small Business Secretary Anna Soubry has publicly called for BT to be split up, but BT has hit back, questioning the accuracy of her claims.
The completed acquisition of EE earlier this year saw BT’s revenues swell by 35%, despite bringing in reduced earnings year on year.
After Ofcom’s ruling that Openreach should become a separate legal entity within BT, rival ISPs have launched a collaborative campaign to pressure the regulator into a full separation.
Ofcom has ruled that Openreach will become an independent legal entity from BT, but stopped short of the complete separation much of the industry is calling for.
The UK’s Culture, Media and Sport Committee has said it will give Ofcom full support for the separation of BT and Openreach if the telco doesn’t “get its house in order”.
CityFibre has announced it will appeal against Ofcom’s 2016 Business Connectivity Market Review on the grounds the new ‘dark fibre’ rules contradict previous efforts to encourage competition in the arena.
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