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It seems all is not fine and rosy in the LLU camp, reports
el reg, but there is
hope at the end of the tunnel.
That is according to Peter Black the independent Telecoms Adjudicator who was
appointed in July to try to make a success of LLU, and overcome BT's
stranglehold of the UK retail broadband market.
He states that although "Significant operational problems remain" with the unbundling of
lines within BT's exchanges, although he thought that there had been
"significant milestones" made so far.
Interestingly all of the problems cannot be laid at BT's door, Mr Black
thinks that they are showing a willingness to embrace LLU. The problems seem to
be fairly major, apart from the complexity involved with providing LLU lines,
operators are not confident of BT delivering the goods. They fear that if there
is a large demand for LLU lines as predicted, BT simply could not cope, the resulting
delays and problems are a big financial risk which could scare off potential
investors.
Even so the forecasts are pretty high, with lines being increased by a
thousand a week, which would increase the relatively small number now unbunded
(24,000) to 50,000 by January next year rising to 250,000 by June and on to a
total of over one million the following year.
"We continue to have the support of the Industry and BT in moving
the LLU capability forward. Order levels are climbing both for
co-location and customer lines. Both are following the curves we
expected, however the actual volumes are lagging slightly.
Significant
operational problems remain; however most operators see improvements and
in particular the intensity of interest from senior BT management is
having a noticeable and welcome impact."
"BT have demonstrated their 'intent to succeed', we must now move to the
evidence and confidence of delivery' phase." |
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Peter Black, the independent Telecoms
Adjudicator |
It seems that next year maybe eventually see the wholesale
take-up of the LLU route to Broadband.....or will it?
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