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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]
LLU reaches half million landmark
News Despite the increasing pace of unbundling, LLU regulator the Office of the Telecoms Adjudicator (OTA) still has reservations about BT's performance. BT also recently cut the prices of migrating customers from its wholesale broadband offering to LLU... [16 Jun 2006]
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. If Ofcom and BT had failed to reach agreement, then... [23 Jun 2005]
Broadband rollout hit as unbundling misses targets
News Although Black reported that significant progress had made in local loop unbundling (LLU) over recent months, he also said that just 50 to 60 per cent of newly unbundled lines were actually delivered 'right first time', against a target of 75 per... [10 Feb 2005]
Broadband to get cheaper?
News The communications regulator announced on Thursday that it was forcing BT to substantially cut its local-loop unbundling (LLU) prices in an attempt to increase "effective and sustainable" broadband competition. [20 Dec 2004]
NTL gets into BT exchanges
News The move was welcomed by regulator Ofcom, which had been trying to get LLU prices in line with some other European countries'. Telecoms and cable television provider NTL will spend £65m on placing its equipment in BT telephone exchanges - a process... [21 Sep 2004]
Ofcom hires fat-pipe czar for UK's next-gen broadband push
News The two key points to its strategy for the future will be pushing for local loop unbundling (LLU) in a move that could see the widespread adoption of both residential and business VoIP and appointing an independent telecoms adjudicator to ensure... [06 Jul 2004]
Ofcom is Europe's best regulator
News The UK is strong overall but was shown as slow to settle disputes and in the liberalisation of LLU (local loop unbundling). The study was based on the situation at the end of last year and Tarrant admitted that Ofcom would make an even better... [27 May 2004]
BT hacks LLU prices - Ofcom looks on grinning
News BT announced today that it is slashing its LLU (local-loop unbundling) charges by around 35 per cent and will push this to 70 per cent soon. It said, "Cutting LLU costs will trigger a real broadband revolution in the UK by allowing ISPs to offer... [13 May 2004]
Leader: UK broadband - alive and kicking
Leader LLU. That ISP has not only changed its name from Freeserve but lamented the failure that has been LLU in the UK. We're not sure but first thing this morning it was assumed that the announcement was timed to douse talk that new super-regulator Ofcom... [27 Apr 2004]
BT's broadband price cuts are "anti-competitive"
News We have already got a well scrutinized structure for LLU. Bulldog complained to the telecoms regulator Oftel that the price cuts announced a month ago are anti-competitive, effectively handing BT Wholesale a monopoly of the ADSL market. [28 Mar 2002]
BT broadband cuts put Bulldog on the verge
News Bulldog is demanding that telecoms regulator Oftel reduce the price of local loop unbundling (LLU) for operators or risk driving competition out of the UK DSL market. Bulldog chairman and CEO Richard Greco told to silicon: "Since we are the only... [27 Feb 2002]
BT forced to cut local loop charges
News UK telecoms watchdog, Oftel has ruled that BT must halve the charges it levies against third party operators wishing to take advantage of local loop unbundling (LLU). The regulator has decided that BT must reduce the amount it charges for providing... [18 Jan 2002]
Is Oftel finally getting tough with BT?
Comment All Oftel is asking for is that BT Wholesale gives a service level agreement (SLA) to the local loop new-comers, who are trying to offer DSL by installing equipment in BT's local exchanges (in the process known as local loop unbundling, or LLU). [23 Aug 2001]
Bungling the unbundling: Who is to blame?
Comment Some companies are already starting to resell BT ADSL services, and this remains an option for those dropping out of full-on LLU. But this isn't the LLU we want. In the meantime, UK Plc suffers, and we all get to moan at BT and the regulator. [05 Feb 2001]
