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An Openreach engineer working on the "Superfast West Yorkshire" project in Wetherby (2014) at a manhole. Following the Telecommunications Strategic Review (TSR), in September 2005 British Telecom signed undertakings with Ofcom to create a separate division, for the purpose of providing equal access to BT’s local access network and backhaul products. [3]
This list compromises some of the broadband providers in the United Kingdom that are members of the Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA). [1] In addition to ISPA, data from ISPreview, one of the UK's largest and longest running media outlets focussed on telecommunications news, is also used.
BT Wholesale pays Openreach for access to the local loop and the exchange. The alternative to IPStream is local-loop unbundling, in which the ISP obtains these facilities from Openreach directly, and makes its own arrangements for onward carriage of the data stream. [citation needed]
BT Openreach's copper plant has been reported to have billions of pounds of scrap value, even after accounting for the cost of removal, with over a million tonnes of copper buried under the streets. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Full retirement of the copper access network is expected to stretch into the 2030s.
The United Kingdom has been involved with the Internet throughout its origins and development. The telecommunications infrastructure in the United Kingdom provides Internet access to homes and businesses mainly through fibre, cable, mobile and fixed wireless networks, with the UK's 140-year-old copper network, maintained by Openreach, set to be withdrawn by December 2025, although this has ...
Openreach – fenced-off wholesale division, established in 2005 following a review by Ofcom and commenced operations in 2006, employing 25,000 engineers previously employed by BT. Its purpose is to ensure that other communications providers have the same operational conditions as BT, and is responsible for the provision and repair in the ...
Subsequently, Openreach began a rollout of VDSL2 FTTC technology over 21CN, deploying DSLAMs in thousands of new street-side cabinets. BT Retail launched their BT Infinity service in 2010 [ 4 ] and expected to continue expanding availability by installing new cabinets until at least 2014. [ 5 ]
In January 2003, she joined BT as general manager, running a desk-based sales team. [6] She later became BT's director of strategy and regulatory affairs. [6] On 1 April 2011 she was made chief executive of their Openreach division; Openreach had been formed in 2006.