Openreach nudges another 112 exchange areas toward full fiber

Openreach has disclosed another tranche of locations where providers will be barred from selling legacy copper-based services to premises that can receive full fiber as it pushes customers toward newer digital connections. The wholesale arm of BT, Britain's former state-owned telecoms monopoly, Openreach announced the latest batch of exchanges notified for "Stop Sell." There are 112 sites in this latest batch, the 25th tranche to be notified. Stop Sell is triggered once 75 percent of the premises connected to an exchange can access "full-fiber" broadband, otherwise known as fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP). That doesn't mean 75 percent of the premises connected to a particular exchange are actually using FTTP, however, just that it is...

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