UPDATE: Corrected title to 1.3m (doh). The Telecommunications adjudicator (OTA), Peter Black, has released his latest monthly (December'06) report on the status of UK local loop unbundling (LLU) - HERE. Some 1,300,000 lines have now been unhooked from BT, adding roughly 200,000 since November'06.

Meanwhile we continue to keep track of the statistics:


During the previous report many of the remaining problem areas with unbundling were improved, although migrations continued to be an issue.

Unfortunately this aspect continues to cause problems, yet one that all parties are trying to improve, especially in light of the regulators forthcoming migration code (MAC) rule changes in February:


The increase of 200,000 over November is clearly the largest to date. It will be interesting to see whether this was just the "Christmas effect" or something more continuous.