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Openreach releases ISP pricing for London fibre trial
News In a statement aimed at other service providers, posted on the BT Openreach website on Friday, the company announced that access to its Generic Ethernet Access Fibre to The Premises product would cost ISPs between £175 and £255 per annum for each...
[September 22, 2009, 16:46]
Openreach slashes prices in unbundling push
News BT Openreach has made it cheaper for other broadband operators to take control of its telephone lines, in a bid to boost the process of unbundling the local loop. Openreach, the access services division of BT, was formed at the start of this year...
[June 6, 2006, 12:00]
BT poaches C&W exec to drive openreach
News BT has lured a senior executive from rival Cable & Wireless to help run openreach, the new access division that is meant to bring fair competition to the UK telecoms sector. The ten-strong openreach executive team was announced by BT on Tuesday...
[September 27, 2005, 16:25]
Ofcom revises Openreach rules
News The telecoms regulator Ofcom has launcheD a new package of "incentives" for Openreach to improve the service it offers to other internet providers. Openreach is the division of BT that was split off to give other providers equal access to the UK's...
[March 20, 2008, 16:51]
BT Openreach unsure of fibre demand
News BT Openreach is more concerned about the level of demand for next-generation broadband access than the regulation surrounding it, a senior executive has told ZDNet.co.uk. Amy Chalfen, who was recently appointed as Openreach's director of...
[September 28, 2007, 13:43]
BT Openreach to recruit 16-year-olds
News BT is to take on 400 apprentices, some aged as young as 16, to be trained as telecoms engineers at Openreach. Openreach is the company that was split off from the rest of BT last year — at the insistence of the regulator Ofcom — to help other...
[November 3, 2006, 11:26]
Ofcom: Well done BT, but...
Blog According to Ofcom's latest annual report on BT Openreach, the split-off bit of the former incumbent is running according to plan. However, the regulator seems to think that Openreach still needs incentives to improve its products and repair things...
[December 10, 2007, 15:29]
BT: We weren't forced to play fair
Talkback with BT's all new Openreach you have the confidence to walk into Telecoms both feet first. Openreach paves the way right down to the final resting place of your business plans. Just fall backwards and Openreach will be there to break your fall.
[January 12, 2006, 14:45]
A cheap shot, I know...
Blog While wading my way through Ofcom's rather interesting one-year-on report into Openreach, I spotted the following vital point: Several communications providers who had been unhappy about not having an Openreach account manager now report mangers...
[October 19, 2006, 16:35]
BT launches access services division
News BT will launch a new access services division called Openreach on Wednesday, which could bring more competition to Britain's telecoms sector. Openreach will oversee the maintenance of BT's national telecoms network and the installation of new...
[January 11, 2006, 11:25]
BT: We weren't forced to play fair
News BT launched its Openreach access division on Wednesday with a bullish denial that it had been forced into the move because of pressure from regulators and rivals. Openreach, which will maintain BT's telecoms infrastructure, must ensure that all the...
[January 12, 2006, 9:25]
BT woos female telecoms engineers
News Too few women are being tempted into becoming telecoms engineers, according to BT’s network arm, Openreach. One way the programme intends to do this is by highlighting the success of existing female engineers, such as Liverpool engineer Alison...
[June 27, 2006, 12:10]
Bulldog users bite back over poor service
Talkback I have had bulldog 8 smeg for six month no in fact i don`t get 8 smeg i download at 576kps yes the same speed as uploads.openreach explained all.bulldog do not have a clue c/w made a big mistake and sky will soon to with easy net.bt wholesale just...
[May 22, 2006, 3:33]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It is with great pleasure that I hand over today's diary to Graeme 'Scoop' Wearden, who has reclaimed his middle name in order to go out and do some good old gumshoe journalism at the birth of BT's Openreach.
[January 13, 2006, 17:05]
First BT fibre-to-the-kerb sites announced
Blog They will "experience headline speeds of up to 40Mbps", according to BT Openreach. Over to David Campbell, Openreach's director of next generation access: "We are delighted to announce Whitchurch, South Glamorgan and Muswell Hill exchanges as the...
[October 13, 2008, 16:56]
Analysts wary of 'underperforming' BT
News The results, covering April to June this year, will be the first to include indications of the success of Openreach, the spin-off designed — at the regulators' insistence — to allow BT's rivals equal access to exchanges.
[July 26, 2006, 17:35]
UK hits critical broadband target
News Steve Robertson, the chief executive of Openreach — the business unit established within BT to manage the LLU process — said on Monday that the achievement was "a tribute to a great deal of hard work and investment, by the whole Openreach team and...
[February 5, 2007, 12:22]
UK reaches a million unbundled lines
News BT's Openreach division, which provides installation and maintenance services on behalf of other telcos, is responsible for the LLU process. Openreach's chief executive Steve Robertson said, "This is a fantastic achievement for the whole of...
[November 9, 2006, 14:14]
TalkTalk attacks BT local-loop price hikes
News In 2005, the regulator Ofcom forced BT to split off its access division, which became Openreach, as a separate entity, so other ISPs could use the UK's telecoms infrastructure without having to use BT as a wholesaler.
[March 9, 2009, 16:11]
BT accused of unbundling overcharge
News Although BT is named in the complaint, Openreach — the access division spun off in January 2006 to expedite the unbundling process — is not. Despite a year of Openreach, the efficiency and speed at which local loop unbundling (LLU) is rolled out...
[January 10, 2007, 16:41]
