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The incumbent is split into separate organisations, which are effectively not allowed to communicate behind closed doors. BT Openreach provides access to the lo
by timthorn 15y ago
The incumbent is split into separate organisations, which are effectively not allowed to communicate behind closed doors. BT Openreach provides access to the local loop, whereas BT Retail sells broadband to consumers. The setup is designed so that other ISPs have exactly the same interface to BT Openreach as BT Retail.
BT offered this arrangement to avoid being broken up - look up the "General Conditions of Entitlement" for more detail.
- oelewapperke 15y agoAnd that's great if you want to resell BT's normal ADSL line. You can't do anything else using that particular interface. There is, unfortunately, no affordable real unbundling (as in "deliver the copper to my equipment") in the UK.