{"id":24401,"date":"2020-10-15T11:39:27","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T10:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=24401"},"modified":"2020-10-15T11:39:27","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T10:39:27","slug":"ofcom-considers-bringing-uk-copper-line-retirement-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/10\/ofcom-considers-bringing-uk-copper-line-retirement-forward.html","title":{"rendered":"Ofcom Considers Bringing UK Copper Line Retirement Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The seemingly rapid progress of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/openreach\" target=\"_blank\">Openreach<\/a>&#8217;s (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>) move to replace their old copper phone services with a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a>) based broadband ISP network has today prompted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a>, the UK telecoms regulator, to reconsider their time-line for the withdrawal of copper services.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Back in January 2020, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a> proposed shifting the focus of their regulation from copper, to support the migration to fibre services (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/01\/ofcom-start-major-review-to-boost-uk-full-fibre-broadband-market.html\">here<\/a>). This included allowing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/openreach\" target=\"_blank\">Openreach<\/a> to stop selling new copper services, and then later removing the copper charge control, under certain conditions. However, they proposed maintaining other requirements on the operator to provide access to its copper services for the period from April 2021 to March 2026.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bq2\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/openreach\" target=\"_blank\">Openreach<\/a> has stated that it plans to deploy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a> to 4.5 million premises by March 2021 and then 20 million premises by the mid to late 2020s.<\/div>\n<p>Since publishing that consultation, Openreach has notified the regulator of <strong>168 exchange areas<\/strong> (plus the Salisbury trial) &#8211; covering about 1.8 million premises &#8211; at which it expects to provide &#8220;<em>ultrafast<\/em>&#8221; broadband services to 75% of premises (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/10\/openreach-add-51-areas-to-the-copper-phone-to-fttp-migration.html\">here<\/a>). The process for moving from copper to fibre lines begins once 75% of premises in an exchange are able to receive such a service.<\/p>\n<p>Once begun, Openreach will then be able to stop selling new copper services in those exchanges during 2021. Under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a>&#8217;s current proposals, in those notified exchanges, where it has completed ultrafast coverage, the operator would also be able to increase prices for copper services, where fibre is available, during 2023 (i.e. encouraging migration to fibre, albeit while possibly irritating some ISPs that will have to pass higher prices on to customers).<\/p>\n<p>The rapid pace of progress has now prompted Ofcom to consider, where there are a limited number of customers remaining on copper services, and there are fibre services available to them, whether it &#8220;<em>may be reasonable to withdraw remaining regulations on copper services in some cases before April 2026<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ofcom.org.uk\/consultations-and-statements\/category-2\/copper-regulation-withdrawal-conditions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Ofcom&#8217;s Proposed Change<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In this consultation, we propose to revise our WFTMR proposals to allow for the withdrawal of copper regulation where fibre services are available, where certain conditions in completed exchanges are met. Withdrawal of copper regulation would apply 2 years after Openreach gives notification that it has completed ultrafast coverage of an exchange area.<\/p>\n<p>Notification could be published when or after take-up of copper services is less than 10% of relevant premises in a completed exchange, and only where measures are put in place to support vulnerable consumers. Our proposals would not apply to Critical National Infrastructures.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The new consultation will be open for feedback until 26th November 2020 and Ofcom&#8217;s final decisions will then be posted as part of the statement in Q4 2020\/21 (i.e. before April 2021).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The seemingly rapid progress of Openreach&#8217;s (BT) move to replace their old copper phone services with a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network has today prompted Ofcom, the UK telecoms regulator, to reconsider their time-line for the withdrawal of copper services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1645],"tags":[56,36,69],"class_list":["post-24401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","category-key_uk_isp_industry_developments","tag-fttp","tag-ofcom-regulation","tag-bt-openreach"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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