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O2 considers high fibre rollout
News However, a spokesperson for Carphone Warehouse, one such provider, said on Wednesday that BT's announcement was welcome as long as Ofcom guaranteed "a level playing field with other ISPs… in the same way that, initially, before LLU came along, [BT... [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 (local loop unbundling... [04 Jun 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 the end of 2005. [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 LLU companies can expect the same protection... [22 May 2007]
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 process... [06 Nov 2006]
Update: Bulldog ditches home broadband market
News Bachelet added: "However, if Bulldog is to successfully capitalise on the UK local loop unbundling (LLU) boom, which has been fuelled by substantial reductions in LLU charges and the creation of BT Openreach, the challenge, as ever, will lie in... [08 Jun 2006]
BT picks up the LLU pace
News Following intervention by Ofcom in 2004, which cut the cost of unbundling, many operators have got involved including AOL, BSkyB and Cable & Wireless. The process of bringing greater competition to the UK's telecoms sector is picking up pace... [06 Feb 2006]
AOL spending £50m to battle BT
News AOL is investing millions in local loop unbundling (LLU), a move designed to help it compete in a higher speed, service-orientated broadband market. AOL has announced it will be spending £50m on the first phase of its LLU programme, which will... [20 Jan 2006]
Broadband Britain is champ of Europe
News According to Point Topic, there are more than 2.5 million unbundled lines in France but only 122,000 in the UK - despite Ofcom forcing BT to make LLU more competitive. Point Topic also warned the UK was lagging behind other countries in local-loop... [03 Jan 2006]
Bulldog does pay-as-you-go broadband
News Just today BT announced it's cutting its Local Loop Unbundling (LLU) prices by 40 per cent, as part of its strategy to stimulate competition and avoid Ofcom intervention. The move comes in the wake of customer service woes, leading to an Ofcom... [16 Nov 2005]
Wanadoo to spend €1bn on local loop unbundling
News Wanadoo, which is currently in the middle of a local loop unbundling (LLU) trial in the Leeds area, is hoping to have between 50 and 65 per cent of its 2.2 million UK customers using unbundled loops within the next two to three years. [08 Sep 2005]
BT tied up by unbundling system bugs
News Black, who oversees the LLU process on Ofcom's behalf, told ZDNet UK on Monday they were the kind of problems that are typical with new software. These problems occurred in new systems that should automate local-loop unbundling (LLU) - the process... [09 Aug 2005]
Onetel and Easynet team up for next gen fat pipes
News Following Ofcom's intervention last year to push down prices, a growing number of telcos are interested in competing with BT through LLU. Easynet is one of the few operators to use local-loop unbundling (LLU) to install its equipment in BT's local... [01 Aug 2005]
Blame BT for service problems, says Bulldog
News Speaking at C&W's annual general meeting on Friday, chairman Richard Lapthorne said BT had been struggling to hand over control of telephone lines to Bulldog - through a process known as local-loop unbundling (LLU). [26 Jul 2005]
BT dodges Ofcom's hammer
News BT is also cutting the cost of installing equipment in its exchanges - a process known as local-loop unbundling (LLU). LLU allows other operators to offer telecoms products in competition with BT. BT and Ofcom have agreed to sweeping changes to the... [23 Jun 2005]
