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BT Group PLC
01 July 2021
1 July 2021
Openreach announces special offer for Communications Providers
to drive adoption of Full Fibre broadband
Openreach has announced a special offer for its wholesale
Communications Provider (CP) customers which gives them long-term
price certainty on its FTTP (Fibre-to-the-Premises) technology.
Openreach is seeking to drive widespread adoption of ultrafast,
ultra-reliable full fibre broadband .
The new offer has been developed after extensive engagement with
its customers and aims to encourage adoption of the new technology
through the following set of principles:
-- Commitment: where CPs choose to purchase from Openreach they
commit to using FTTP wherever it's available (including new
provides and technology regrades) - rather than older services such
as those based on Fibre-to-the-Cabinet or purely copper technology
- with no volume or migration targets.
-- Pricing certainty: Openreach will give pricing certainty for
up to 10 years in return for this 'stop-sell' commitment
-- Simplicity: A single national rental price will apply to the entire Openreach FTTP footprint
-- Competitive prices: Prices will be competitive whilst
offering a fair return for Openreach. CPs can tailor offers across
a range of speed tiers and take-up of higher bandwidths will be
encouraged with further rebates, whilst pricing is set by Ofcom on
the lowest speed tier (40Mbps upstream, 10Mbps downstream) .
The offer will be open for participation between 1(st) October
2021 and 30(th) March 2022. The long-term pricing certainty will
last until 30(th) September 2031 and be available across the entire
FTTP footprint. Discounts are available to CPs where they choose to
place new orders with Openreach and commit to making a percentage
of those on the FTTP network, where available.
Katie Milligan, Managing Director of Customer, Commercials and
Propositions at Openreach said: "Nobody's building Full Fibre
broadband faster, further, or at a higher quality than Openreach,
and we're well on track to reach 25 million premises by December
2026.
"At the same time we're determined to make Full Fibre the
default option for customers throughout the UK, so we've been
working closely with Communications Providers to offer simple and
competitive pricing which gives them the long-term certainty and
flexibility they need.
"We believe this offer makes Full Fibre a must-have for every
home and business, and it means more people could start benefitting
from our most revolutionary and reliable broadband sooner."
More than one million homes and businesses have now ordered
ultrafast, ultra-reliable full fibre broadband over the Openreach
network. BT is investing GBP15 billion to build the gigabit-capable
technology to 25 million UK premises by December 2026 and it's
making the technology available to 43k premises every week, with
more than five million homes and businesses already able to place
an order.
For pricing, see 'Notes to Editors' below and full terms &
conditions of the special offer are provided on our web site.
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Notes to Editors
Pricing [Simplified version]
Feature Connection charge on Monthly rental Annual rental
01/10/2021 on 01/10/2021 indexation from
(From 1/4/2022, annually 1/4/2022
indexed at higher of
CPI and 0%)
40/10 Mbit/s In residential, Area GBP13.93 Per list price
2 premises:
GBP25.00 for new to network
GBP50.00 for non-new
to network
In other premises:
GBP99.39
----------------------------- --------------- -----------------
55/10 Mbit/s or 80/20 GBP14.75 Defined by 40/10
Mbit/s Mbit/s price
increase
----------------------------- --------------- -----------------
115/20 Mbit/s GBP15.50
--------------- -----------------
160/30 Mbit/s GBP16.20 CPI-1.25% or
0% whichever
is highest
--------------- -----------------
220/30 Mbit/s GBP18.00
--------------- -----------------
330/50 Mbit/s GBP19.00
---------------
550/75 Mbit/s GBP20.00
---------------
1000/115 Mbit/s GBP22.00
----------------------------- --------------- -----------------
- *Area 2 is a new "potentially competitive area" definition
(part of the Wholesale Fixed Telecoms Market Review 2021-26) that
generally reflects locations where one or more existing alternative
ultrafast networks are already present or where one or more
operators have a plan to deploy (and Ofcom considers the future
rollout could be economic).
- Further terms & conditions apply.
About Openreach
Openreach Limited is the UK's digital network business.
We're more than 35,000 people, working in every community to
connect homes, schools, shops, banks, hospitals, libraries, mobile
phone masts, broadcasters, governments and businesses - large and
small - to the world.
Our mission is to build the best possible network, with the
highest quality service, making sure that everyone in the UK can be
connected.
We work on behalf of more than 665 communications providers like
BT, SKY, TalkTalk, Vodafone, and Zen, and our broadband network is
the biggest in the UK, passing more than 31.8m premises.
Over the last decade we've invested more than GBP15 billion into
our network and, at more than 190 million kilometres - it's now
long enough to wrap around the world 4,798 times.
Today we're building an even faster, more reliable and
future-proof broadband network which will be the UK's digital
platform for decades to come. We're making progress towards our
full fibre optic network target to reach 25 million premises by
December 2026. Research shows a nationwide Full Fibre network could
potentially provide a GBP59bn boost to UK productivity.
To help build the new fibre network and deliver better service
across the country - we've created and filled more than 9,000
apprenticeship roles in the last two years and we're recruiting
another 1,000 trainee roles in Openreach in 2021. We're also
building greener - we operate the UK's second largest commercial
fleet and want to help lead the transition to electric vehicles,
with a target to transition our fleet to being electric in
2030.
Openreach is a highly regulated, wholly owned, and independently
governed unit of the BT Group. More than 90 per cent of our
revenues come from services that are regulated by Ofcom and any
company can access our products under equivalent prices, terms and
conditions.
For the year ended 31 March 2021, we reported revenue of
GBP5,244m.
For more information, visit www.openreach.co.uk
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