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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]
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. We consider that our job in the OTA [Office of the Telecoms Adjudicator], as far as... [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 behalf of other telcos, is... [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. The spokeswoman added the growth in broadband has exceeded... [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 process... [06 Nov 2006]
LLU untangles 735,000 lines
News The telecoms adjudicator has long warned that operational problems with the delivery of LLU could make it difficult for BT's rivals to plan and launch new services. Local loop unbundling (LLU) is the process whereby competitors to BT are able to... [05 Sep 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 picks up the LLU pace
News The process of bringing greater competition to the UK's telecoms sector is picking up pace, according to Peter Black, the UK's telecommunications adjudicator. Black, who oversees the unbundling of BT's local exchanges, reported on Friday that... [06 Feb 2006]
AOL spending £50m to battle BT
News The Office of the Telecoms Adjudicator, set up to oversee LLU, predicted in its January monthly update that there will be more than one million unbundled lines this year. AOL is investing millions in local loop unbundling (LLU), a move designed to... [20 Jan 2006]
Broadband Britain is champ of Europe
News LLU is meant to bring much-needed competition to Europe's telecoms markets, many of which are still dominated by their incumbent, former state-run telcos. Point Topic also warned the UK was lagging behind other countries in local-loop unbundling... [03 Jan 2006]
Wanadoo and PlusNet go for high-speed LLU broadband
News While a growing number of ISPs are unveiling their LLU offerings, BT has been getting a telling off from the telecoms watchdog over delays and operational issues pertaining to its own efforts to unbundled local loops. [17 Oct 2005]
Has Sky got its eye on the broadband arena?
News LLU allows rival telecoms operators to compete with BT by offering different wholesale services while using BT's own telephone network infrastructure. As well as buying an existing broadband ISP, Sky is rumoured to be considering spending up to... [14 Oct 2005]
BT tied up by unbundling system bugs
News These problems occurred in new systems that should automate local-loop unbundling (LLU) - the process where a rival telecoms operator can take control of BT telephone lines and offer its own services to businesses and consumers. [09 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]
