Tag Archives: Shared Infrastructure

Use It or Lose It

An interesting question for BT posed recently by a member of the Final Third First Campaign:
“I would like to know what they think about the possibility of ceding the infrastructure relating to final third provision to a national/multiple local CICs to allow for local enterprise and development.
In other words would BT be open to the [...]

No BT Pole Sharing until 2011

Word just in – BT Openreach have an “aspiration” to offer a pole sharing product no earlier than late 2011…
This is really not good enough and puts into question BT’s assertions that they are genuinely wanting to work with OFCOM, industry and communities to deliver Digital Britain.
Is BT too big to care?
Structural separation of Openreach [...]

BT Pole Dancing

Attached are a set of seven pages of a guidance document received by a Community network several months ago.
The subject matter is how independent community networks might go about sharing existing BT infrastructure like telegraph poles in rural areas and comments are welcomed here regarding how feasible such a contract might be in practice, from [...]