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Ofcom proposes BT wholesale rural price cuts

...populated or urban areas — now have effective competition as a result of Local Loop Unbundling (LLU), which is the practice of allowing multiple providers to... Read more

20 January, 2011 by Ben Woods
Design and Performance Analysis of Smart Antenna System for DECT Radio Base Station in Wireless <endeca_term>Local Loop</endeca_term>

Design and Performance Analysis of Smart Antenna System for DECT Radio Base Station in Wireless Local Loop

Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunication (DECT) can be a latent solution for Wireless Local Loop (WLL) based communication system planning. However DECT performs poorly in multipath... Read more

1 August, 2010

Geo attacks BT as it quits UK fibre-funding process

...broadband to rural Britain, and it should be compelled to take a local-loop unbundling approach to dark fibre Read more

17 November, 2011 by David Meyer

UK sees drop in unbundled lines

...monthly drop in years has been recorded in the number of UK local-loop unbundled lines, which may suggest a rise in the popularity of... Read more

8 June, 2011

Small telcos call for end to 'copper gravy train'

...install their own kit in the incumbents' phone exchanges, a process called local loop unbundling (LLU). The idea was to increase competition, and in the... Read more

21 May, 2012

BT faces lower limit on line rental charges

...Openreach can charge other ISPs for its wholesale line rental and for local loop unbundling. The reduced rates may lead to lower retail prices for... Read more

6 February, 2012

Ofcom: Level playing field needed for rural broadband

...s way of ensuring real competition was to force BT to allow local-loop unbundling (LLU) — in other words, to let other operators physically install... Read more

9 November, 2011 by David Meyer

BT profits rise 20 percent despite revenue drop

...June. This represents a 37-percent share of the total DSL and local-loop unbundling (LLU) market of 16 million homes and businesses. Get the... Read more

28 July, 2011 by David Meyer

BT forced to cut rural broadband wholesale rates

...Trefor Davies, Timico The changes only affect places where there is no local-loop unbundling (LLU) — that is, where no ISP has equipment installed in... Read more

20 July, 2011 by David Meyer

BT to 'roughly double' fibre speeds in 2012

The company, which has announced a massive rise in profits, says that it will provide a large speed boost to its fibre-to-the-cabinet customers starting later in 2011 Read more

12 May, 2011 by David Meyer

Ofcom aims for lower real-term broadband prices

...products: wholesale line rental (WLR), which is a straight wholesale product, and local loop unbundling (LLU), which lets rival providers set up their own equipment... Read more

1 April, 2011 by David Meyer

Fibre: BT must give rivals access to superfast broadband network

...over the services they provide that they have currently in the LLU [local loop unbundling] environment," said Stuart McIntosh, competition partner at Ofcom. "We think... Read more

7 October, 2010 by Natasha Lomas

TalkTalk signs up to offer BT-network 40Mbps fibre

...more closely in line with the UK's rules on copper-network local-loop unbundling (LLU). It will also require BT to deploy more fibre... Read more

7 October, 2010 by David Meyer
Ministers cross wires on next-gen broadband

Ministers cross wires on next-gen broadband

...that copper connections are taxed, the situation for fibre looks even bleaker. Local-loop unbundlers were treated as a special case by the VOA in... Read more

13 September, 2010 by Malcolm Corbett

BT to open up fibre cabinet info to rural rivals

...sub-loop unbundling (SLU), which is a more small-scale alternative to local loop unbundling (LLU), where a telecoms provider installs its own equipment in... Read more

5 August, 2010 by David Meyer

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