Openreach
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BT names Chairman of new Openreach board
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BT has appointed former Ofcom board member Mike McTighe as the first Chairman of Openreach, the division which manages the UK’s largest fixed line phone and broadband network.
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Openreach confirms trials to boost broadband speeds for remote communities
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Known as Long Reach VDSL, the technology was installed into the community’s existing fibre broadband cabinet and Openreach says users are already seeing “significant increases” in their speeds.
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BT to retain ownership of Openreach following Ofcom review into UK telecoms market
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Today’s announcement follows a lengthy review into the UK’s telecom sector which was instigated, in part, by concerns over Openreach’s performance and impartiality.
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Openreach boss on minimum speed guarantees & building Britain’s ultra-fast broadband network
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To ensure households and businesses in more remote and rural parts of the country aren’t excluded from the digital economy because of slow or unreliable broadband, ministers plan to guarantee all broadband customers a minimum download speed of 10Mbps by 2020.
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BT’s rivals renew calls for “legally separate” Openreach
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A coalition of telecoms firms and trade groups, including Sky, TalkTalk, and Vodafone, has renewed calls for BT’s Openreach network business to be hived off into a “legally separate company”.
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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.