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BT and Unions Agree to Tackle Multi-Billion Pensions Black Hole

19th March, 2018 (18 Comments)

The Communications Workers’ Union (CWU) and BT have reached a deal to close the operator’s defined benefit pension scheme (BTPS), which should avoid the possibility of a UK strike and help to plug the growing pension deficit (£7bn at the last review, with some warning it could hit £14bn).

BT Ultrafast Broadband Covers 886K UK Premises as Pay TV Shrinks

2nd February, 2018 (14 Comments)

BT has released their latest results to the end of 2017 (Q4 calendar), which saw their retail UK broadband ISP base add 35K subscribers to total 9,342,000 (vs +22K in Q3). Meanwhile their FTTP and G.fast “ultrafast broadband” (100Mbps+) services reached 886,000 premises (up from 770K).

BT Creeps to 9.3 Million UK Retail Broadband Subs as Ultrafast Fibre Grows

2nd November, 2017 (13 Comments)

The BT Group has published their latest results for Q3 2017 (calendar), which saw their retail broadband base add 22K subscribers to total 9,307,000 (up from 19K in Q2 vs 29K in Q1) and this includes 5.285 million “fibre broadband” FTTC/P users (up by 179K vs 170K in Q2 and 211K in Q1).

BT Update – UK Progress of G.fast, FTTP Broadband, 21CN and Qube Engineers

9th October, 2017 (32 Comments)

BT recently held another one of their periodic meetings with ISPs from across the United Kingdom, which among other things revealed the latest roll-out progress for G.fast and FTTP “ultrafast broadband” tech, as well as a trial of Qube engineer visits and the status of their 21CN upgrades.

BT Wholesale Publish 160Mbps and 330Mbps G.fast Broadband ISP Pricing

4th September, 2017 (59 Comments)

BT Wholesale has published an updated price list (effective from 1st September 2017), which gives us a useful glimpse at the wholesale charges that UK ISPs will need to pay if they want to buy the operator’s 160Mbps (30Mbps upload) or 330Mbps (50Mbps upload) based G.fast broadband service.

BT Tops 9.28 Million UK Retail Broadband Subscribers as Consumer CEO Exits

28th July, 2017 (0 Comments)

After a chaotic start to the year BT has today published their latest report for Q2 2017 (calendar), which saw their retail broadband base reach a total of 9,286,000 subscribers (up by 19K vs 29K in Q1) and this includes 5.1 million “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) users (up 170K vs 211K in Q1).

UPDATE BT Wholesale Broadband Checker Adds Options for VRI and NTEFaceplate

18th July, 2017 (15 Comments)

The BT Wholesale Broadband Checker has recently added two additional rows to its output for the customer premise environment (‘VRI‘ and ‘NTEFaceplate‘) and so far as we can tell these only show when testing with a specific telephone number (i.e. not specific address or postcode checks).

BT Update on LR-VDSL Broadband Speeds, XdB, FTTP and FTTC Progress

8th June, 2017 (20 Comments)

A recent meeting between ISPs and BT has yielded fresh information on the expected performance of Openreach’s new Long Reach VDSL (FTTC) broadband tech, as well as some updates on their XdB trials, FTTP roll-out progress and a few hints about other changes.

Threats of Industrial Action as BT Ponders Future of Pension Scheme

1st June, 2017 (35 Comments)

The Communications Workers’ Union (CWU) has warned BT that it will “use all means up to and including industrial action” if the UK telecoms giant pushes forward with any plan to close the company’s “gold-plated” defined-benefits pension scheme, which could be suffering under a £14bn deficit.

BT Wholesale’s UK Broadband Checker Adds Status for Bridge Taps

16th May, 2017 (7 Comments)

The BT Wholesale Broadband Checker has recently added a new row to its output that appears to very generally reflect the status of a wiring issue known as a ‘Bridge Tap‘, which so far as we can tell only shows when testing with a specific telephone number (not address or postcode checks).

BT Reach 9.3 Mill UK Broadband Subs as Openreach Moot “large scale” FTTP

11th May, 2017 (39 Comments)

The BT Group has released their latest quarterly report (Q1 2017 calendar), which saw their retail broadband base reach a total of 9,276,000 subscribers (up by 29K vs 83K in Q4 2016) and Openreach has begun a consultation on the “potential benefits and costs of a large-scale FTTP deployment.“

FluidOne’s Wholesale Platform Offers FREE ADSL2+ and FTTC Activations

18th April, 2017 (3 Comments)

Business communications provider FluidOne, specifically their wholesale platform, has launched a new promotion that offers free activations on their BTWholesale based ADSL2+ and superfast FTTC broadband products (saving up to £55 +vat per connection).

BT Openreach to Begin Phase 2 Trial of SOGEA Standalone FTTC Broadband

10th February, 2017 (19 Comments)

Openreach (BT) has announced that their Single Order Generic Ethernet Access (SOGEA) product, which aims to give consumers a truly standalone (naked) FTTC / VDSL “Fibre Broadband” line without the voice (phone) service, will enter Phase 2 of its trial with UK ISPs from 2nd March 2017.

BT Update on UK FTTP, SOGEA, 3dB and 21CN WBC Broadband Plans

6th February, 2017 (49 Comments)

At the end of last month BT (Wholesale) released an update on their UK roll-out plans for various future broadband upgrades and technologies, which covers a variety of areas from the new FTTP speed profiles to the national roll-out of 21CN WBC (replacing all IPStream by 2018). Check out what’s coming.

BT Top 9.27 Mill UK Broadband Users as Openreach Connect 7.17 Mill to Fibre

27th January, 2017 (53 Comments)

BT has today published their latest quarterly results (Q4 2016 calendar), which saw their retail broadband base grow by +83k to total 9,276,000 subscribers (up from +76k added in Q3) and Openreach report that 7,177,000 now take an FTTC/P based “fibre broadband” service via their UK network.

BT Wholesale Broadband Checker Adds “Downstream Handback Threshold”

18th January, 2017 (16 Comments)

The official BT Wholesale Checker has recently added a new column for Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC / VDSL2) based broadband lines called “Downstream Handback Threshold (Mbps)” and after a few days of head scratching we now know what it means.

VIDEO – Adrian Kennard on the ISP Conflict with BT’s SFI Fault Fixing

15th January, 2017 (64 Comments)

Running an ISP is far from easy and for those providers that make use of BT’s national UK telecoms network then there can be added complications, particularly when it comes to the tedious task of trying to get a broadband fault fixed by an engineer. Now AAISP’s boss, Adrian Kennard, has done a video to explain.