Openreach
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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.
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BT given final go-ahead to gobble up EE
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A number of companies who gave evidence to the CMA inquiry warned about a loss of competition but the watchdog ruled that while both BT and EE currently offer mobile services and home broadband, each was only a small player in the other’s core market.
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BT’s Openreach vows to boost service levels
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Complaints from rival ISPs have increased in the past few months as some seek to use BT’s impending purchase of EE to force Openreach to be split from the rest of BT.