{"id":372,"date":"2008-12-11T06:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T06:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=372"},"modified":"2017-01-24T20:36:19","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T01:36:19","slug":"uk-raising-costs-for-broadband-competitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=372","title":{"rendered":"UK raising costs for broadband competitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why do more ISPs in the UK and other parts of Europe use local loop unbundling than we see in Canada?<\/p>\n<p>Ofcom, the UK regulatory authority, is proposing increases in prices for BT Openreach services, with loops rising to \u00a385 per year &#8211; roughly C$150 &#8211; from \u00a381.69 today. It represents an increase of about C$0.50 per month.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, most loops in Ontario are less than this, running C$145 in rate band B and as low as C$78 in band A (which covers the city core).<\/p>\n<p>Ofcom issued a 250 page consultation document [<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gstconferences.com\/pdf.gif\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ofcom.org.uk\/consult\/condocs\/openreachframework\/off.pdf\">pdf<\/a>, 933 KB] describing its proposal. In the document, Ofcom says that a third of all BT local exchanges have unbundled loops available, covering more than 80% of the population. The document says that 60% of the UK has access to 4 or more competitors.<\/p>\n<p>It <a href=\"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=384\">again<\/a> raises the question in my mind as to why more Canadian ISPs aren&#8217;t taking control of their own service provision using local loops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do more ISPs in the UK and other parts of Europe use local loop unbundling than we see in Canada? Ofcom, the UK regulatory authority, is proposing increases in prices for BT Openreach services, with loops rising to \u00a385 per year &#8211; roughly C$150 &#8211; from \u00a381.69 today. It represents an increase of about &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=372\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UK raising costs for broadband competitors<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UK raising costs for broadband competitors &#8226; Telecom Trends<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Why do more ISPs in the UK and other parts of Europe use local loop unbundling than we see in Canada? 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