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UK business lacking high fibre diet
News Last year, BT Openreach said it was unsure there was demand for next-generation access. The Communications Management Association's (CMA's) Next Generation Access report, issued on Thursday, claims companies' ecommerce operations will suffer unless... [07 Jul 2008]
BT CEO Ben Verwaayen to step down
News Verwaayen was also instrumental in achieving a settlement with telecoms regulator Ofcom which saw the telco's Wholesale and Retail arms avoid the pain of schism, while giving birth to its access services division Openreach. [08 Apr 2008]
Super-speed broadband heads to Kent
News BT Openreach, the telco's local access network business, said the fibre will be available from August and access will be offered on a wholesale basis to all UK communication providers. Steve Robertson, chief executive of Openreach, said the fibre... [10 Jan 2008]
BT: Job cuts on the way?
News The spokesperson said other divisions, such as BT Openreach, had recently been recruiting more staff and even claimed next week's results might show the company had grown overall. BT is to announce a number of job losses when it issues its latest... [02 Nov 2007]
Ofcom consults on next generation access
News Richards said the current regulatory regime, which forced BT to spin off its Openreach division in order to allow rivals access to its exchanges, was "the right starting point for future regulation". Ofcom has issued a consultation paper to... [27 Sep 2007]
21CN boss quits BT
News Aside from helping to create 21CN, Reynolds has overseen the rollout of broadband across the UK and the creation of the much-criticised Openreach, which runs the final mile of BT's telecoms network. The chief executive behind BT's £10bn national... [28 Jun 2007]
Broadband availability still hitting UK Plc
News The 14th Communications Management Association (CMA) annual survey, which polled 354 senior communications and network professionals in the UK at larger companies, found the creation of BT Openreach is thought to have "stimulated competition". [07 Feb 2007]
Unbundled lines set to number 1.5 million
News Steve Robertson, the chief executive of Openreach - the business unit established within BT to manage the LLU process - said the achievement is "a tribute to a great deal of hard work and investment, by the whole Openreach team and by our LLU... [05 Feb 2007]
One million lines: BT hits LLU milestone
News BT's Openreach division, which provides installation and maintenance services on behalf of other telcos, is responsible for LLU. Openreach's chief executive Steve Robertson said: "This is a fantastic achievement for the whole of industry and... [10 Nov 2006]
BT struggling to keep pace with fat pipe demand
News The shift to a 24-hour working schedule within BT Openreach - an offshoot of BT - comes after an announcement that Openreach has seen a 420 per cent increase in the number of unbundled lines since January 2006. [08 Nov 2006]
BT to recruit unbundling army
News BT is to take on 400 apprentices, some aged as young as 16, to be trained as telecoms engineers at Openreach. 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... [06 Nov 2006]
C&W CEO: BT is working against its customers
News When the potential separation of BT's Wholesale and Retail units was rejected by Ofcom, in favour of the creation of a wholesale broadband access unit named BT Openreach, Marsh criticised the regulator saying there was no positive impact from the... [14 Sep 2006]
LLU untangles 735,000 lines
News Black added that "some factors" in these rollout issues lay with the operators themselves but much also rested with Openreach - the BT offshoot that recently split from the incumbent in an attempt to ensure a fair telecoms market. [05 Sep 2006]
BT beats analyst expectations
News The results were the first to show the performance of Openreach, the division split off to allow rivals direct access to BT's exchanges. Openreach saw a drop in internal revenue (i.e. BT Group's first-quarter results for the current financial year... [28 Jul 2006]
BT share jitters pre-empt results
News The results, covering April to June this year, will be the first to include indications of the success of Openreach, the spin-off designed - at the regulators' insistence - to allow BT's rivals equal access to exchanges. [27 Jul 2006]
