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The UK telecoms regulator has today opened a short consultation on their proposal to push back some key decisions regarding the retirement process for Openreach<\/a>’s (BT<\/a>) copper lines in favour of fibre optic broadband. In short, Ofcom<\/a> wants to see a bit more FTTP<\/a> roll-out take place first (for experience), before they set out a final plan.<\/p>\n

At present Openreach<\/a> are already conducting a number of copper retirement trials in Mildenhall<\/strong> (Suffolk) and Salisbury<\/strong> (Wiltshire) – here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a>. For example, in Salisbury the process for moving from copper to Fibre-to-the-Premises<\/strong> (FTTP<\/a>) lines begins once 75% of premises in an exchange are able to receive “full fibre<\/em>” (target for this is 24 months after roll-out starts and copper switch-off might then occur c.3 years after \/ on top of that).<\/p>\n

Under this approach such a process could start with a “no move back<\/em>” policy for premises connected with FTTP, followed by a “stop-sell<\/em>” of copper services to new customers and ultimately full withdrawal. One other result of this is that the operator will also stop providing their own voice products after around 2025 (i.e. shifting the responsibility for delivering this and VoIP<\/a> on to broadband ISPs and wholesale providers).<\/p>\n

Since then Openreach have also announced that they intend to accelerate their plans to move away from the old analogue phone (PSTN \/ WLR) services and on to a new all-IP<\/a> network, which will see more than 118 UK exchange locations receiving over 75% coverage via their FTTP broadband ISP technology by June 2021 (here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

At the same time Ofcom<\/a> have been busy conducting their Wholesale Fixed Telecoms Market Review 2021-26<\/a> (FTMR), which proposes major changes to help boost investment in FTTP broadband and high capacity Ethernet (leased line<\/a>) services for both the residential and business connectivity markets. As part of that it is was also considering proposals for the copper retirement process.<\/p>\n

An important aspect of the prior proposals includes a period of regulatory transition after which, when Openreach has completed ultrafast coverage of an exchange area, Ofcom would lift the existing charge control on the anchor copper service. At that point, only the fibre charge control would apply. However, Ofcom notes that there may be “very limited circumstances in which Openreach may not be able to connect some premises in an exchange area with ultrafast services, despite all reasonable efforts<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

The new consultation<\/a> is thus seeking views on a revised proposal, which would “wait until after our final decisions in the WFTMR statement to consider how to define the circumstances in which premises can be excluded from the definition of a completed ultrafast exchange in which the copper charge control can be lifted<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

Ofcom’s Statement<\/strong><\/p>\n

Based on our January WFTMR consultation proposals and Openreach\u2019s announced plans, we expect that the earliest that the copper charge control will be removed will be in December 2022 in Salisbury, and in June 2023 in a further 117 exchange areas. We expect Openreach to be able to practicably complete ultrafast coverage in these areas by that time and trigger the removal of the copper charge control.<\/p>\n

However, Openreach\u2019s fibre roll-out is at its relatively early stages, and waiting until after our final WFTMR decisions to define the detail of circumstances in which premises can be excluded would allow us to better consider roll-out experience, whilst still providing the industry and its customers with certainty and transparency.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The new consultation will be open for responses until 3rd September 2020<\/strong> and they intend to publish the outcome of this as part of the WFTMR statement in Q4 2020\/21, which means that an additional consultation will be needed after that point in order to set out the final process. We think this makes sense given that Openreach’s trials are only just starting and more feedback will be needed to help validate their planned approaches.<\/p>\n

On the other hand it would have been nice to have this all neatly sorted in time for the WFTMR statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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