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RSS LLUBT slammed over unbundling price hike
News With fibre, all the chips go up in the air again, and the investment made today in LLU won't be so relevant. According to a statement from TalkTalk on Monday, BT raising its line charges for local loop unbundling... [10 Mar 2009]
Cheap broadband will stop BT going fibre charge crazy
News It will probably help some of the niche ISPs that don't have capital to invest in LLU [local loop unbundling] and will therefore benefit from wholesale because it gives them more of an even playing field. [03 Mar 2009]
North Wales fires up high speed fibre network
News FibreSpeed will initially be available to around 1,000 businesses located on key business parks in North Wales but the Assembly Government said it anticipates service providers will invest in infrastructure of their own - such as... [27 Nov 2008]
When is free broadband not free broadband?
News The advert prompted complaints from 10 members of the public that the free service was only available in certain areas of the country, where Carphone Warehouse has undertaken local loop unbundling (LLU). [25 Sep 2008]
O2 considers high fibre rollout
News Some analysts have argued that BT's announcement was bad news for those providers who had invested large amounts in local-loop unbundling (LLU) - the process by which providers can get equivalent access to BT's... [17 Jul 2008]
Broadband pace lagging in the countryside
News The advice website says broadband headline speeds in excess of 8Mbps are therefore less likely to be available in rural areas, adding that almost all telephone exchanges in areas such as London have a wide variety of LLU... [04 Jun 2008]
O2 woos SMEs with broadband deal
News Fairman said it currently has 57 per cent population coverage for its LLU (local loop unbundling) product - and is aiming to ramp that up to 68 per cent by the end of August. Mobile operator O2 UK has launched a business... [01 May 2008]
Broadband narrows UK digital divide
News Two-thirds of the UK's households were able to get broadband and phone services through local loop unbundling (LLU) by the end of 2006 - compared with only two-fifths of homes able to connect by LLU at... [24 May 2007]
Ofcom slams the slammers
News Customers of local loop unbundlers (LLU) will now get extra protection from misselling, the telecoms industry watchdog Ofcom has announced. From this week, consumers who get their voice or broadband from... [22 May 2007]
Virgin Media picks C&W as LLU best mate
News Virgin Media - formerly known as NTL:Telewest and Virgin Mobile - has signed Cable & Wireless to supply its unbundled network. The four year deal will mean Virgin Media will be able to supply customers outside of its cable network with... [18 May 2007]
Unbundled lines set to number 1.5 million
News Local loop unbundling (LLU) is a process whereby telecoms operators other than BT provide voice and data services to homes and businesses using BT's infrastructure. Steve Robertson, the chief executive of Openreach - the... [05 Feb 2007]
One million lines: BT hits LLU milestone
News One million lines have been unbundled from BT's telephone exchanges, the telco said, as part of its local loop unbundling (LLU) programme. BT's Openreach division, which provides installation and maintenance services on... [10 Nov 2006]
BT struggling to keep pace with fat pipe demand
News A BT spokeswoman told silicon.com: "Order volumes are driven by the LLU [local loop unbundling] operators so it's difficult for OpenReach to anticipate future broadband figures. BT engineers are to work round the clock... [08 Nov 2006]
BT to recruit unbundling army
News 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 broadband providers get more of an equal footing by installing their own equipment in BT's exchanges, a... [06 Nov 2006]
Carphone Warehouse takes home AOL UK
News The company also announced it was expecting £20m in additional costs during the current financial year, with the unexpectedly high take-up of free broadband meaning "incremental wholesale broadband costs incurred across a larger base,... [11 Oct 2006]
