Openreach
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Three/O2 merger blocked by European competition authorities
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Plans to merge the two networks were announced last January in response to the news that BT was to buy EE, the UK’s largest mobile operator. The phone and broadband giant had been in talks with the owners of both EE and O2 before ultimately deciding to pursue EE.
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BT pledges Fibre to the Premises and G.fast for 12m homes and businesses
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In addition to FTTP, which will be available to around 2m new-build residential and businesses premises, the telecoms giant will deploy G.fast technology on its existing copper and fibre network.
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BT now offering UK’s fastest entry-level broadband
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BT has boosted the speeds available on its entry-level fibre broadband service to 52Mbps, making it the fastest starter package available from any UK fixed line provider.
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BT’s superfast broadband now available to 25 million premises
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Openreach, the BT subsidiary which powers most of the UK’s ISPs, today announced that more than 25 millions homes are now able to access its superfast fibre broadband service.
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BT keeps Openreach after review says standalone business would have no incentive to invest
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Instead of ordering Openreach to from the rest of the BT Group, Ofcom is proposing that other telecoms providers be allowed to use BT’s network of ducts and telegraph poles to lay their own cables.
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Government and BT strike new deal to install fibre broadband in new homes
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Under the deal, Openreach will make a “significant contribution” to the installation costs before asking property developers to pay. It’s expected this will see Openreach foot the entire bill for connecting half of all new properties.