{"id":798183,"date":"2021-03-18T09:56:34","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T09:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2021\/03\/18\/britain-sets-long-term-conditions-to-expand-fibre-broadband\/"},"modified":"2021-03-18T09:56:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T09:56:34","slug":"britain-sets-long-term-conditions-to-expand-fibre-broadband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2021\/03\/18\/britain-sets-long-term-conditions-to-expand-fibre-broadband\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain sets long term conditions to expand fibre broadband"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain said on Thursday it would create the conditions for BT to invest billions of pounds in rolling out full-fibre broadband nationwide by giving it flexibility on the pricing of its fastest services for the long term.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We aim to allow all companies the opportunity to achieve a fair return over their whole investment period, and do not expect to introduce cost-based prices for fibre services for at least ten years,&#8221; regulator Ofcom said.<\/p>\n<p>The new regulations, which will apply to BT&#8217;s national Openreach network until March 2026, allow the company to keep the price it charges operators for entry-level 40 Mbit\/s broadband and slower copper packages flat and charge more for regulated products delivered over full fibre instead of copper.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This approach improves the investment case for BT and its rivals by providing them with a margin to build the new networks,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>Once fibre networks are in place, Ofcom said it would progressively remove regulation on copper so Openreach would not have to maintain two networks.<\/p>\n<p>BT has said it needed the conditions to make a fair return before it gave the go-ahead to billions of pounds of investment on fibre broadband.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain said on Thursday it would create the conditions for BT to invest billions of pounds in rolling out full-fibre broadband nationwide by giving it flexibility on the pricing of its fastest services for the long term. &#8220;We aim to allow all companies the opportunity to achieve a fair return over their whole investment period, and do not expect to introduce cost-based prices for fibre services for at least ten years,&#8221; regulator Ofcom said. The new regulations, which will apply to BT&#8217;s national Openreach network until March 2026, allow the company to keep the price it charges operators for entry-level [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}