Openreach Delays Launch of 160Mbps and 330Mbps FTTP Product Tiers

Openreach (BT) has confirmed that the launch of their new 160Mbps (30Mbps up) and 330Mbps (50Mbps up) product tiers for Fibre-to-the-Premise (FTTP) broadband lines, which will mirror the new G.fast tiers, is being delayed by one month because “further deployment testing is required.”

The new tiers had been due to go live this month but they will now be delayed until 16th October 2017, which won’t make a huge difference and if anything it may be beneficial because we’re expecting the first commercial residential G.fast packages on those same speed tiers to be launched by a number of ISPs around the October-November window.

Openreach’s current +vat wholesale pricing for the new tiers has been pasted below, including their special 12 month discount for the 330Mbps option. As usual these are the costs that they charge ISPs, which come before providers have added their own costs for service delivery, VAT (20%), profit margins, data capacity and other bits in order to create the product you buy.