{"id":15863,"date":"2018-04-11T00:01:30","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T23:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=15863"},"modified":"2018-04-10T15:36:45","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T14:36:45","slug":"openreach-start-removing-lr-vdsl-broadband-from-uk-trial-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/04\/openreach-start-removing-lr-vdsl-broadband-from-uk-trial-areas.html","title":{"rendered":"Openreach Start Removing LR-VDSL Broadband from UK Trial Areas"},"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 confirmed that they will imminently begin withdrawing their Long Reach VDSL (LR-VDSL) broadband technology trial from several deployments across the UK, which at one point had been touted as way of helping to deliver on the government&#8217;s 10Mbps broadband USO.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Proof of Concept (PoC) <strong>LR-VDSL<\/strong> trial was essentially a modified version of the same <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/vdsl\">VDSL2<\/a> technology that already exists in the current &#8216;up to&#8217; 80Mbps capable <strong>Fibre-to-the-Cabinet<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttc\">FTTC<\/a>) network, albeit harnessing higher signal power, vectoring, G.INP and wider frequency ranges (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/08\/bt-reveal-tech-details-expanded-long-reach-vdsl-broadband-trial.html\">tech details<\/a>) in order to deliver faster speeds over longer copper lines from your local street cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>At one point it was even indicated that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/openreach\" target=\"_blank\">Openreach<\/a> could have used LR-VDSL to support the government&#8217;s proposed 10Mbps <strong>Universal Service Obligation<\/strong> (USO) by pushing hybrid &#8220;<em>fibre based<\/em>&#8221; broadband out to 99% of the UK by 2020 or 2022 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/05\/bt-openreach-say-lr-vdsl-push-fibre-broadband-99-uk.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/07\/bt-gov-propose-600m-10mbps-broadband-universal-service-obligation.html\">here<\/a>). The PoC itself took place in <strong>Isfield<\/strong> (East Sussex), <strong>North Tolsta<\/strong> and <strong>Barvas<\/strong> (Isle of Lewis) but there were some tentative plans to expand it.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately an update posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a> to ISPs last October 2017 noted that the technology &#8220;<em>hasn\u2019t proved as much as expected, especially for the sub 10Mb lines<\/em>&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/10\/bt-update-uk-progress-g-fast-fttp-broadband-21cn-qube-engineers.html\">here<\/a>). On top of that LR-VDSL worked best when older <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/adsl\">ADSL<\/a> connections were first disabled, which could have complicated the roll-out because ISPs needed to be convinced to play ball (a particularly thorny issue for unbundled ISPs, not to mention some differences in pricing).<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after this we learnt via another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a> update that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/openreach\" target=\"_blank\">Openreach<\/a> had &#8220;<em>decided to no longer consider using Long Reach VDSL to deliver any Universal Service Obligation for Broadband<\/em>&#8221; and that work was being undertaken to decide how best to tackle existing End Users (i.e. those who have already been moved onto LR-VDSL as part of the trial).<\/p>\n<p>Suffice to say, we were unsurprised when some of <strong>Isfield&#8217;s<\/strong> residents recently began informing us that BT had begun notifying them of their intention to start &#8220;<em>removing<\/em>&#8221; the service and nudged the operator for a comment.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>A Spokesperson for Openreach told ISPreview.co.uk:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since May 2016, we\u2019ve been running a Proof of Concept (PoC) of Long Reach VDSL (LR-VDSL) in three locations: North Tolsta and Barvas in the Outer Hebrides and Isfield in East Sussex.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, we saw significant increases in Fibre to the Cabinet (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttc\">FTTC<\/a>) broadband speeds and considered LR-VDSL as a potential solution in helping the UK government to deliver its universal service obligation (USO) for nationwide broadband with a minimum speed of 10Mbps.<\/p>\n<p>After consultation with many of our Communication Provider (CP) customers, LR-VDSL is no longer seen as a preferred technology to deliver the USO and we are intending to end the PoC.<\/p>\n<p>We notified affected CPs in mid-January and lines will revert back to standard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttc\">FTTC<\/a> in mid-April 2018.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The government recently detailed their final design for the proposed 10Mbps USO (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/03\/government-details-final-10mbps-for-all-uk-broadband-uso-design.html\">here<\/a>), although crucially we&#8217;re still awaiting information from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a> on the key aspects of supplier choice, technology split and any solid details of the industry funding arrangement.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously the loss of LR-VDSL could mean that a tiny number of end-users suffer a loss of performance, although by the sounds of it their local cabinet should remain enabled for standard FTTC (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/vdsl\">VDSL2<\/a>). Previously some of the areas only had access to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/adsl\">ADSL<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Openreach (BT) has confirmed that they will imminently begin withdrawing their Long Reach VDSL (LR-VDSL) broadband technology trial from several deployments across the UK, which at one point had been touted as way of helping to deliver on the government&#8217;s 10Mbps broadband USO.<\/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":[474,55,69,537],"class_list":["post-15863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-bt","tag-fttc","tag-bt-openreach","tag-uso"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Openreach Start Removing LR-VDSL Broadband from UK Trial Areas - 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