The Telecommunications Adjudicator (OTA) has today released its latest monthly (September'08) report on the status of UK local loop unbundling (LLU) - HERE. Some 5.032 million telephone lines have now been unbundled from BT for use by rival operators and ISPs, which compares with 4.961m during August 2008.

The report claims that growth continues to remain flat, with volumes approximately 30% down on throughput levels experienced this time last year. However July's figures showed a total of 4.874m, which means that monthly growth has actually slowed to +71,000 between August and September compared with +87,000 between July and August.

Naturally the attractiveness of cheaper unbundled broadband and phone services continues to be the main draw for LLU based products, leading to an ever wider gap between BT based and non-BT based UK ISPs. Though many unbundled providers also lock customers in to lengthy contracts and it can sometimes be costly to migrate away from fully unbundled ISPs.