Openreach is to begin offering engineering appointment slots to let customers activate its FTTC-VDSL (i.e. "superfast") broadband on Saturdays under limited circumstances, in an apparent nod to ...

Openreach said by encouraging more adoption of both FTTC and FTTP, it would be able to deliver more money back into Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) through the gainshare mechanisms built into its ...

Unsurprisingly, Openreach says that 9pm on Sunday is the busiest time for FTTC connections: that's when everyone's watching Netflix, or catching up on the weekend's football matches in 4K. 165GB ...

Openreach (BT) has warned broadband and phone providers impacted by three of their pilot UK exchange closures - Deddington, ...

Openreach also said that Gfast – which provides FTTP-like speeds over traditional fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC) infrastructure – will still continue to be deployed at scale across the UK.

FTTC can already support 80Mbps broadband downstream and up to 20Mbps upstream, and Openreach is optimistic about offering even faster speeds in the future. My own experience with a 40Mbps BT ...

In Surrey Openreach is cabling back from the longest lines back to the FTTC copper runs and with interim Cabs standing in the coming months you will find the USO Post Codes (10) will drop. Surrey ...

Openreach, which has been trialling 1Gbps FttC technology with Australian company NetComm Wireless, closed consultation on its FttP network proposition for Britain's "needs of the next decade ...

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Openreach copper The new system, called Single Order Generic Ethernet Access (SOGEA), is being rolled out the entirety of Openreach’s 27.7 million-strong fibre to the cabinet (FTTC) footprint.

Openreach has now connected more than 4.5 million homes and businesses across the UK to its full fibre network, reaching its first target ahead of schedule.

It's no secret that Sky wants BT and Openreach split up. When Ofcom announced its new review of the UK telecommunications industry, the broadcaster said "structural separation" was vital to ...