The Telecommunications adjudicator (OTA), Peter Black, has released his latest monthly (March'07) report on the status of UK local loop unbundling (LLU) - HERE. Some 2,000,000 lines are about to be unhooked from BT, adding a hefty 300,000 since February'07.

The biggest news this week, outside of the strongest growth since we first began tracking LLU progress, is that the OTA may soon switch to a new OTA2 scheme. Precisely what form this will take is not yet known. Meanwhile we've continued to keep track of unbundling progress:


There's not a terrible amount of reason for us to keep monitoring this anymore since the major hurdles have largely been passed. Unbundled lines are likely to continue on a steady track, although issues with specific areas of migration remain problematic.

Still, this will be the last time we write a full monthly update. Future news will just contain the headline figure and link.