BTOpenreach, which holds the responsibility for maintaining much of BT’s national telecoms network across the United Kingdom, has on New Year’s Eve announced a heap of new price reductions and increases for their line rental (WLR and LLU), Ethernet and various other connectivity services.
The changes, which will become effective from 1st April 2015, appear to be broadly in line with Ofcom’s requirements under their Fixed Access Market Reviews 2014 (FAMR) and related Charge Controls. Typically these prices represent what ISPs pay and that’s before we factor in the cost of additional services and the need for providers to make a profit, thus the retail price is often a fair bit higher.
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Elsewhere ISPs that make use of Local Loop Unbundling (LLU allows providers to take over full or partial control of BT’s lines by installing their own kit in the operators telephone exchanges), such as TalkTalk and Sky Broadband, will see the rental price of a fully unbundled (MPF) line increase by +1.6% to £87.48. Meanwhile the one-off charge for a new connection will fall by -1.5% to £45.74.
It’s also interesting to note that Openreach will be increasing the energy usage price for LLU and Access Locate by 8.97% to 12.88 pence per kWh (kilowatt-hour) in line with the terms of the LLU (Revised Access Network Facilities Agreement) and Access Locate contracts. Apparently this change is being driven by an increase in BT’s raw energy costs.
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.ph...eaks-uk-line-rental-ethernet-prices-2015.html
