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bt ceo philip jansen 2019 uk

16th November, 2023 (23 Comments)

The outgoing CEO of telecoms and broadband giant BT Group, Philip Jansen, has this afternoon called on the Chancellor of the UK government, Jeremy Hunt, to use his forthcoming Spending Review to help support investment in the roll-out of full fibre (FTTP) broadband by making “Full Expensing” a permanent change.

BT-Engineer-Looking-at-UK-Map-on-Tablet

16th November, 2023 (28 Comments)

The Chief Security and Networks Officer of UK ISP BT (inc. EE and Plusnet), Howard Watson, has today published a blog post that reveals the approach they intend to take with customers as part of Openreach’s plan to close around 4,600 exchanges across the country – starting with a pilot in Deddington, Ballyclare and Kenton Road.

fttp building internal openreach engineer 2020

15th November, 2023 (3 Comments)

Network operator Openreach (BT) has introduced new delivery options for their commercial UK Full Fibre Infrastructure Build (FFIB) product, which are intended to “improve operational effectiveness leading to reduced mean time to deliver” when getting related sites into a Customer Ready for Service (CRFS) state.

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14th November, 2023 (12 Comments)

Mobile operator and UK ISP Vodafone has today released their Q2 FY24 financial results, which saw their fixed line broadband base grow more slowly to total 1.292 million customers (up by 27k in the Q2 vs 42k in Q1 FY24), while their mobile base increased to 18.242 million (up by 218k vs 104k in the previous quarter).

Plusnet-Broadband-Router-2023

9th November, 2023 (0 Comments)

Broadband ISP Plusnet has today become the latest internet provider to introduce their own round of Black Friday targeted discounts, which slashes the monthly price of their various hybrid-fibre (FTTC) and full fibre (FTTP) broadband packages on Openreach’s UK network by a few extra pounds.

exchange fibre openreach

8th November, 2023 (26 Comments)

Openreach (BT) has published an update on their Exchange Exit Pilot, which recognises the “resource-intensive nature” of the work for ISPs and has thus reduced the number of exchanges involved from five to three. All of this forms part of their plan to shut 4,500 exchanges, which will impact various broadband, PIA and Ethernet services.

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6th November, 2023 (35 Comments)

The deployment of a new gigabit-broadband network by FullFibre Ltd in the Cotswolds village of Broadway, as well as in nearby Willersey, reportedly resulted in ambulances and an arrest after residents made a strong protest against the UK operator’s plan to deploy telecoms poles in the area.

Home phone UK handset in red

6th November, 2023 (44 Comments)

Openreach is developing an additional phone line product, which does NOT require a broadband connection to function and will be targetted at vulnerable and edge use cases (inc. CNI) users with old analogue phone lines (PSTN) who would otherwise “face challenges” in migrating to an All-IP (Internet Protocol) based solution by 2025.

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3rd November, 2023 (67 Comments)

After a long pilot, Openreach has today revealed that the commercial launch of their Single Order Transitional Access Product (SOTAP) for UK ISPs will take place on 1st December 2023. The new product makes it possible to offer a standalone ADSL broadband line with optional IP-based (digital) phone services.

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BT Tower 2021

2nd November, 2023 (34 Comments)

The BT Group has published their latest H1 FY24 results to September 2023, which reveals that Openreach’s full fibre (FTTP) broadband ISP network added a record of 860,000 premises to their coverage (up from 718k last quarter) and now covers 11.85 million premises, with a further 6m where initial build is underway.

10mbps uso minimum broadband speed uk

1st November, 2023 (11 Comments)

UK ISP BT has published their latest biannual (October 2023) update on the progress they’ve made in delivering Ofcom’s flaky 10Mbps Universal Service Obligation (USO) for broadband. The operator has so far built a USO connection to over 7,681 premises (up from 7,000 in Apr 2023), with 185 further builds in progress (down from 800).

31st October, 2023 (9 Comments)

Given that today is Halloween, it seems only fitting for Openreach (BT) to announce that they’ve just deployed their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to the village of Pluckley in Kent (England), which has been named by the Guinness World Records as the most haunted village in Britain.

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2023 Openreach female engineer in exchange.jpg

30th October, 2023 (0 Comments)

Ofcom has today decided NOT to change how it calculates one of Openreach’s regulated Quality of Service (QoS) standards for Ethernet and Dark Fibre repairs, which would have replaced the current “on-time repair” (OTR) target with a “mean time to repair” (MTTR) alternative.

disconnected internet broadband

30th October, 2023 (13 Comments)

The case of a pregnant UK mother who, while living in a house with no mobile signal and a 3-week-long outage of Openreach’s broadband and phone services, ended up giving birth on the kitchen floor due to an inability to call 999 – is today also highlighting a key caveat in Ofcom’s system of Automatic Compensation.

gfast openreach sidepod install

28th October, 2023 (69 Comments)

Hundreds of thousands of premises on Openreach’s increasingly forgotten G.fast (SOGFAST) broadband network are being left to suffer the misery of diminishing ISP choice as providers scrap their old packages in favour of newer, faster and more reliable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) services. But those who can’t access full fibre are being left neglected.

2023 Openreach-engineers-talking

27th October, 2023 (8 Comments)

Network access provider Openreach has begun a new “hyper-care” trial that is designed to help improve the handling of Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband orders that have been in the tail (waiting to be delivered) for more than 100 calendar days, which will essentially put those orders through a special review.

bt ee shop front

18th October, 2023 (93 Comments)

The big branding change continues. Some 18 months have passed since UK telecoms giant BT announced (here) that EE would – over time – gradually become their “flagship brand for our consumer customers” (i.e. converged broadband ISP and mobile plans etc.) and another shift begins today, alongside the launch of their 1.6Gbps package.

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