Very briefly as I'm not well and backlogged with everything.
- AFAIK MCT testing is free (certainly for SPs) although retest upon failure isn't.
- There is or at least was a way in which modem/router manufactures could approach Openreach for MCT testing. I have seen something in the past to indicate there is/was 2 routes.
- I discussed MCT with TP-link in Oct 2014 with their UK product manager who was going to take it up with their Head Office in China. Since I havent heard anything further, their HO may either have decided against it OR not realised back in 2014 how important it could be.
- Zyxel apparently applied off their own back. I spoke to someone @ Zyxel UK about 7/8 months ago when I asked which f/w they used on the test equipment. Their official announcement last year also indicates that they did so.
- I note that some of the big ISP branded modems do not make that list although they obviously should have been through testing. ie the Sky Hub, BTr/consumers HH5, Plusnets Hub One. Why isnt the HG612 and ECI modem on there yet they should be. What about the likes of some of the other ISPs (say EE) theyve had more than enough warning to ensure that their modems are tested and Openreach make it abundantly clear that support will not be given if they don't.
- Last year at one of the ISP forum events, Openreach asked for suggestions from the ISPs for modems to go through testing. I doubt the big names will have put anything forward since they will have all been concentrating on their own equipment.
supposedly released by some ISP so it doesn't look like KCOM did any more than nick that list from somewhere.
Updated lists are issued to the ISPs and there is the ISP forum documentation provided by BT wholesale/Openreach, which is why all the ISP lists are identical.