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[Black Sheep]

Yesterday was a milestone for Openreach

I shared new announcements on service, coverage and speed with CPs and the media.

We launched our external dashboard, (http://www.homeandwork.openreach.co.uk/OurResponsibilities/better-broader-faster.aspx?utm_source=ourstrategy-furl&utm_medium=site&utm_campaign=ourstrategy+furl)  to make us more transparent and accountable.
It shows how we’re doing on residential and corporate service and shows where we go beyond Ofcom’s minimum service levels. It includes stats on coverage and speed, showing how we’ve made fibre available to 25.7m homes and businesses. I also shared that we’re investing an extra £30m in Ethernet to enable us to improve service for customers.

I was excited to share some ultrafast announcements:

• New site developments of 30+ homes will be able to get FTTP for free from November, meaning 9 out of 10 new build homes can have access to free ultrafast
• We’re extending our G.fast pilot from 25k to 138k premises, by adding 12 new G.fast pilot locations*
• Our G.fast and FTTP plans mean we’ll have reached 500k Ultrafast by the end of March
• We’ll double our FTTP footprint in the next 12 months as part of our 2m ambition by 2020
• We’re extending Long Reach VDSL trials to 2 villages in Somerset and Leicestershire – testing solutions for hard to reach areas
• Our two G.fast equipment vendors will be Nokia and Huawei

I’m proud that we’re ambitious and making real progress – whilst still recognising that we’ve more to do.

Thank you for your help.

Clive

* The next 12 exchange areas are in: Bolton, Cheltenham, Derby, Donaldson, Langside, Luton, Rusholme, St Austell, Swindon, Sheffield and two areas of London – Balham and Upton Park.

[Moderator edited to fix a minor formating error.]

[WWWombat]

I think that media pack is only available internally

[Ronski]

Nice to see things progressing in the right direction 

Let's hope builders get on board with the free fttp installs.

[Black Sheep]

I think that media pack is only available internally

Whoops, sorry .............. it usually says 'intra' somewhere in the URL when it's an internal link ...... as I couldn't see that word anywhere, I assumed it would be visible to JP !! 

Mods, please delete at will. 

[roseway]

Done

[Chrysalis]

how did wombat know it was internal only?

[burakkucat]

how did wombat know it was internal only?

By the simplest method possible . . . attempting to access it and getting nowhere!

[Black Sheep]

LOL ^^^ ...... and also cheers, Eric. 

[Chrysalis]

Yeah but I dont know as the link is gone hence the question.

[WWWombat]

In this case DNS failed to resolve the hostname ... that, on examination, looked distinctly like something that would be internal.

[gt94sss2]

• We’re extending our G.fast pilot from 25k to 138k premises, by adding 12 new G.fast pilot locations*

* The next 12 exchange areas are in: Bolton, Cheltenham, Derby, Donaldson, Langside, Luton, Rusholme, St Austell, Swindon, Sheffield and two areas of London – Balham and Upton Park.

Openreach have now confirmed their G.Fast pilot deployment will start in January 2017.

G.fast pilot deployment will begin 9 January 2017

The purpose of our pilot deployment phase is to continue to prove G.fast technology and to test our processes and procedures at a larger scale than our trial locations enabled.

Our pilot deployment will take place in; Cherry Hinton in Cambridgeshire, Gillingham in Kent, Bolton in Greater Manchester, Cheltenham in Gloucestershire, Derby in Derbyshire, Donaldson in South East Scotland, Langside in Glasgow, Luton in Bedfordshire, Rusholme in Manchester, St. Austell in Cornwall, Swansea in Wales, Swindon in Wiltshire, Sheffield and Balham and Upton Park in London.

It’s our ambition to make Ultrafast speeds available to 138,000 homes and businesses by the end of March 2017 via our G.fast pilot deployment phase.

[NewtronStar]

I am sure if they deviated from the tried & trusted sites they would gather more data as a whole for the UK, No point in sticking with an area which always gives excellent results try Scotland and N.Ireland & wales first before you trial england   

[Black Sheep]

I am sure if they deviated from the tried & trusted sites they would gather more data as a whole for the UK, No point in sticking with an area which always gives excellent results try Scotland and N.Ireland & wales first before you trial england   

For Wales, see Swansea. 

[Bowdon]

Apparently BT are waiting until the 2nd half of 2017 for the full public roll out. They are waiting on some chips being updated.

http://gfastnews.com/index.php/90-r/266-bt-delays-g-fast-rollout-6-9-months