{"id":44198,"date":"2025-12-13T00:01:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T00:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=44198"},"modified":"2025-12-12T14:10:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T14:10:03","slug":"openreach-test-crystal-ball-ai-process-to-tackle-complex-uk-full-fibre-installs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/12\/openreach-test-crystal-ball-ai-process-to-tackle-complex-uk-full-fibre-installs.html","title":{"rendered":"Openreach Test Crystal Ball AI Process to Tackle Complex UK Full Fibre Installs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Network access provider <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>) appears to be testing a new &#8220;<em>Crystal Ball Process<\/em>&#8220;, which is described as being an AI-driven customer service innovation that seems intended to help tackle complex installations of Fibre-to-the-Premises (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a>) based broadband ISP lines.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The process, which uses notes from engineers, delay codes, survey outputs, network topology and other information to help inform its model, is designed to monitor and predict when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/openreach\" target=\"_blank\">Openreach<\/a> will be able to get these complex installations into service (normal installs won&#8217;t use this process), which is then fed back to broadband ISPs. The goal seems to be to better manage expectations and improve communication.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bq2\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> Complex installs may involve extra or unexpected physical or access challenges, which can result in a multi-stage job or higher costs to tackle.<\/div>\n<p>At present the details around this are fairly limited and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/openreach\" target=\"_blank\">Openreach<\/a> seemed reluctant to furnish us with any details, although we understand that they&#8217;re aiming to be in a better position to release more information on it sometime in the New Year. The information we do have has thus come from various other industry sources.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s less clear is why any of this really needs Artificial Intelligence (AI), since we&#8217;d assume a bit of competent programming and normal machine learning algorithms would be able to achieve a similar sort of system and output. 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