UPDATE BT Openreach Tweaks Line Rental Prices for UK ISPs

BTOpenreach, which manages BT’s national telecoms network in the United Kingdom, has today tweaked the price of its unbundled (LLU MPF / SMPF) and Wholesale Line Rental products for phone and broadband providers. This follows the conclusion of appeals against Ofcom’s 2012 LLU/WLR charge control.

It’s important to stress that the adjustments, which are only very small and broadly amount to a few pence up or down (i.e. nothing that would be enough to change your bill), are separate from Ofcom’s on-going Fixed Access Market Review process that is also investigating a more noticeable adjustment in line rental costs (here).

The changes are effective from today.

UPDATE 21st December 2013

Openreach are also now reducing the connection prices for their Wholesale Line Rental and LLU (MPF) services. The changes are shown in the table:

In addition Openreach have also advised ISPs of an increase in the price of energy usage per kWh from £0.1135 to £0.1237 for all comingling products utilised for LLU, Access Locate and Access Locate Plus (all applicable from 1st April 2014).