{"id":12410,"date":"2016-08-31T14:55:09","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T13:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=12410"},"modified":"2016-09-01T06:53:45","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T05:53:45","slug":"bt-openreach-publishes-first-uk-dark-fibre-reference-offer-isps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/08\/bt-openreach-publishes-first-uk-dark-fibre-reference-offer-isps.html","title":{"rendered":"BT Openreach Publishes First UK Dark Fibre Reference Offer for ISPs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/openreach\" target=\"_blank\">Openreach<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>) has today published the first Draft Reference Offer for their new Dark Fibre Access (DFA) product, which is designed to give rival ISPs &#8220;<em>physical access<\/em>&#8221; to the operator&#8217;s fibre optic cables (i.e. allowing them to &#8220;<em>take direct control of the connection<\/em>&#8220;).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Under this <strong>Passive Remedy<\/strong> rival ISPs would be allowed to install their own equipment at either end of the optical fibre within <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>&#8217;s ducts, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a> hopes will result in more market competition and may even help to speed-up the roll-out of new broadband services around the UK (e.g. adding backhaul capacity to support their networks).<\/p>\n<p>The new product was demanded by the regulator as part of their recent <strong>2016 Business Connectivity Review<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/03\/ofcom-business-review-forces-bt-dark-fibre-lower-prices-higher-quality.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/04\/eu-clears-ofcom-plans-bt-dark-fibre-lower-prices-faster-installs.html\">here<\/a>). However the move also marks a dramatic reversal from their position during the last review in 2012, when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a> warned that such a solution could &#8220;<em>carry significant risks of worse outcomes, both for consumers and for effective competition, including adding costs and encouraging inefficient entry<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Never the less the new DFA product is due to be introduced on <strong>1st October 2017<\/strong> and as part of that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/openreach\" target=\"_blank\">Openreach<\/a> has now published the first <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.openreach.co.uk\/orpg\/home\/products\/darkfibreaccess\/darkfibreaccess.do\" target=\"_blank\">Draft Reference Offer<\/a><\/strong>. The service itself will be available on a national basis in the regulated areas, which includes the whole of the UK with the &#8220;<em>exception of Hull, Central London, Core routes and Data Centres<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>The most important documents to read (for those interested) are the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openreach.co.uk\/orpg\/home\/products\/darkfibreaccess\/darkfibreaccess\/downloads\/DFADraftReferenceOfferProductHandbook010916DRAFT.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Draft DFA Handbook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openreach.co.uk\/orpg\/home\/products\/darkfibreaccess\/darkfibreaccess\/downloads\/DFADraftReferenceOfferPricing.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">DFA Pricing<\/a>, although all of the details are still subject to change.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>DFA Service<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/openreach\" target=\"_blank\">Openreach<\/a> Dark Fibre Access service offers an uncontended, unmonitored, unlit optical path over an end to end radial distance of up to 45km and a maximum route distance of 86km between two sites. This will be a passive service and no equipment will be provided to light the fibre provide, hence the reference to \u2018dark fibre\u2019 in the product title.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>DFA Product options<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The service will be available with two variants, Standard and Local Access options, with both being able to be ordered as either a single fibre or fibre pair option, so depending on the overall active solution that customers are planning to operate they can choose the product variant that best suits their needs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The early prices listed for connection, rental and mainlink are currently merely ILLUSTRATIONS based on the prices for Openreach&#8217;s 1Gbps <strong>Ethernet Access Direct<\/strong> (EAD) variants, which are in effect as at 1st September 2016, and the adjustments to these prices using the guidance provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a> in their business connectivity review.<\/p>\n<p>For example, the one-off DFA connection prices range from around \u00a32,000 to \u00a33,500 +vat and meanwhile rentals run from around \u00a32,000 to \u00a35,000 per year. At this point the documents have only been online for a short time and so most of the relevant ISPs are currently unable to provide us with their thoughts. A final reference offer is due to be published by <strong>December 2016<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Ofcom had previously been concerned that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a> could &#8220;<em>charge excessive prices for dark fibre<\/em>&#8220;, which they said might limit take-up and &#8220;<em>lead to distortion in downstream competition<\/em>&#8220;, and so they proposed that the dark fibre remedy should be subject to a charge control (i.e. keep its price low). But by offering Dark Fibre on the cheap the regulator could risk harming BT and some of its rivals in the same market.<\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly BT believes that the solution is a &#8220;<em>flawed piece of regulation that introduces an unnecessary layer of complexity and will deter others from building their own fibre networks<\/em>&#8221; and they&#8217;ve got support for that position from other core infrastructure builders, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/cityfibre\" target=\"_blank\">Cityfibre<\/a> and Zayo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/cityfibre\" target=\"_blank\">Cityfibre<\/a> are even in the process of challenging Ofcom through the <strong>Competition Appeals Tribunal<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/07\/cityfibre-takes-ofcom-uk-court-protection-bts-dark-fibre.html\">here<\/a>), but for now Openreach has no choice and must continue the development of their DFA solution.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s important not to confuse all this with Ofcom&#8217;s other wholesale <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/02\/a-closer-look-at-ofcoms-proposed-bt-openreach-duct-and-pole-access-fix.html\"><strong>Duct and Pole Access <\/strong><\/a>(DPA) remedy, which will give rivals access to use BT\u2019s (Openreach) underground cable ducts and telegraph poles (i.e. two different sides of the same coin). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/cityfibre\" target=\"_blank\">Cityfibre<\/a> and others welcome DPA, even if a few of them have had trouble making use of it (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/05\/challenges-cityfibre-moot-using-bt-cable-ducts-southend-sea.html\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Openreach (BT) has today published the first Draft Reference Offer for their new Dark Fibre Access (DFA) product, which is designed to give rival ISPs &#8220;physical access&#8221; to the operator&#8217;s fibre optic cables (i.e. allowing them to &#8220;take direct control of the connection&#8220;).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[474,472,478,52,36,69],"class_list":["post-12410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-bt","tag-business","tag-ethernet","tag-fibre-optic","tag-ofcom-regulation","tag-bt-openreach"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - 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