Sky (Easynet) are reportedly trialling a Fibre to the Cabinet (FTTC) system in East London, which according to ZDnet doesn’t involve any customers but is more of a “proof of concept” trial of sub-loop unbundling (SLU).
SLU involves Openreach making available tie pairs at the street cabinet level, allowing 3rd party operators to connect ADSL or
If 2006 truly was the “year of LLU”, then it appears that someone forgot to tell Be* (O2), Easynet (Sky) and Carphone Warehouse (TalkTalk) that we’re now in 2007. All three companies have started 2007 with the same fervour as they finished 2006 with.
LLU deployment in the past 12 months
It was under three weeks ago
It seems like the LLU providers are all dead set on reaching their autumn coverage targets. Bulldog and Easynet have rolled out 68 and 44 new exchanges respectively this week. Rumour has it that another major LLU player is about to embark upon a new deployment plan as well. Those of you who are particularly
I remember noting a few months back in the news how static Easynet’s LLU deployment was, while at the same time Bulldog and Be were steaming ahead with new exchanges. Well, the tables seem to have turned now! Easynet have brought 124 exchanges online for the LLU service in the past 28 days, whereas Bulldog
Be, Bulldog, Easynet, Wanadoo and even HomeChoice have all been busy unbundling exchanges recently. There’s too many exchanges to list here so, I’ll just give a brief summary for each provider and refer you to the relevant provider page where you can see the full lists (ordered by enablement date).
Be Unlimited have been continuing their
Just under a year ago, Cable and Wireless announced their year-end results for March 2005. Within this they stated that they planned to have 600 exchanges unbundled by Bulldog by March 2006, and 800 by late autumn 2006. Anyone familiar with the figures though will know that Bulldog have remained static at around 410 exchanges
Easynet announced some time ago that they would be rolling out their LLU service to 750 exchanges by the end of the year. Well, after being idle at 232 exchanges for over a year, it now seems that they’ve begun the next stage of their rollout. Five London exchanges - Stamford Hill, Streatham, Kneller Hall,
Today BSkyB outlined plans to bring the total number of LLU exchanges to 750 by the end of 2006 and 1,200 by 2007. This is equivalent to about 70 percent of homes, their current rollout only reaches 20 percent of homes in the UK.
You can find a list of the existing Easynet enabled exchanges here.
UkOnline have been conducting trials with parent company Easynet since March this year.
In reaction to Be Unlimited offering consumer trials of the 24Meg service in the London area, UkOnline are looking at beginning consumer trials immediately.
“UK Online’s groundbreaking broadband service offering speeds of up to 24Mb
will be available in October, for under £30 a month.”
Consumers
Bulldog have rolled out to a further 8 exchanges this time 7 in London and the final area is Stevenage.
The exchanges are:
Addiscombe
Colindale
Deptford
Kensington Gardens
Norbury
Stevenage
Thornton Heath
West Kensington
Updated list can be found here
Or use our coverage checker here
Hopefully this is a aggressive start to the year from all LLU providers, with further news expected from Easynet / UKOnline
Easynet are to offer LLUStream via their network of LLU exchanges - list here
Pricing is unclear as yet but in the press release from Easynet they are making noises about being significantly cheaper.
2005 should be a interesting year for LLU developments.
Wanadoo looking at rolling out LLU services
AOL has also mentioned that LLU rollout is a
UKOnline, a subsidary of EasyNet, have announced their plans to launch 8Mbps broadband for £39.99 from April next year. The service is unsurprisingly based upon EasyNet’s LLU deployment, meaning that it should be available at 236 exchanges nationwide by the time of release.
Distance restrictions will mean that around 50% of people on an exchange will
The Register is carrying the news that BT Wholesale have dropped their LLU prices again this year.
The latest announcement, which follows from the one in May, sees the connection charge to service providers fall from £83.33 to just £37.00. Further indications of just how seriously BT is now taking LLU can be seen in their
HomeChoice, Easynet, Bulldog and now NTL have all issued announcements about new LLU rollouts this month. It seems that the recent LLU price cuts by BT really are attracting new investment. Anyway, a brief summary of the LLU activities of late seems to be in order…
HomeChoice have confirmed the deployment of LLU services to Deptford,
Easynet have announced yesterday that they have now unbundled 200 exchanges for their services, which operate at up to 8Mbps.
The total number of Easynet exchanges now stands at 201, with the addition of the following 19 exchanges since the end of May.
Belgravia
Chelmsford
Crawley
Deptford
Earls Court
Farnworth
Hemel Hempstead
Hounslow
Longton
Luton
Morley
North (Bristol)
Orpington
Sloane
South Shields
St Albans
Tipton
Warrington
Worthing Central
Easynet set themselves a target at the beginning
Both Easynet and Bulldog have increased their number of unbundled exchanges recently. Easynet now have 182 exchanges and Bulldog have 38 exchanges (Yes, we only list 37 at present - will remedy that ASAP).
It was only 2 weeks ago when we reported that Easynet had increased coverage to 158 exchanges. It seems that they really
Just when you thought you couldn’t possibly fit any more LLU news into one week, Easynet goes and unbundles another set of exchanges!
Until very recently Easynet have been operating with 149 unbundled telephone exchanges. Unfortunately we had only been able to locate 138 of these. Early this morning we attempted to determine the 11 we
This morning BT have announced that they will be reducing LLU (Local Loop Unbundling) charges by up to 70%.
In a series of phased price cuts, due to start June 1st, BT will significantly reduce the cost of LLU connection and line rental. The June 1st price cuts will see the monthly line rental charge fall