Openreach
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Openreach, "a BT Group business", is a division of United Kingdom Telecommunications operator BT Group. The division was created to 'Ensure that all rival operators have equality of access to BT's own local network'. The local network or 'access network' is the wiring connecting customers to their local telephone exchange. BT's call-out engineers also appear under this division and install and maintain the physical wiring into customers premises regardless of which telecoms provider is actually retailing the service to the end-user.
BTRetail is the subsidiary of BT Group which sells telecom services to end users, and Openreach was established to ensure other operators such as those utilising Local Loop Unbundling (LLU) have equal and fair access to the access network on the same terms as BTRetail.
Openreach installs, services, supports and maintains the wiring, fibres and connections which link tens of millions of homes and businesses in Britain to their Communications Providers' networks. The organisation's two major product lines are Local Loop Unbundling (LLU) and Wholesale Line Rental (WLR).
The division was established after BT reached an agreement with Ofcom [1] to implement certain undertakings, pursuant to the Enterprise Act 2002, after Ofcom's [2] strategic review of telecommunications.
[edit] References
- ^ Undertakings given to Ofcom by BT pursuant to the Enterprise Act 2002
- ^ Ofcom's Strategic Review of Telecommunications
[edit] External links
- Openreach Homepage
- Openreach Products
- Ofcom: Implementation of BT's Undertakings
- Introduction to Openreach key product, WLR3
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