Resources
Blogs, articles and documents to help you to navigate the change
Altnet’s – To Monetise OR Die
Altnet’s – To Monetise OR Die After the frenetic last few years of investor excitement and relatively cheap funds, nearly 100 Altnet have risen to compete with OR and Virgin and now pass 16.4m home (10/25) with fibre (Simon Jones Partner BDO September 25) – the cost...
UK Internet Fixed Network Economics – The OR Space & Power Challenge
UK Internet Fixed Network Economics – The OR Space & Power Challenge Since the dial and broadband services were launched nearly 30 years ago, the basic assumption for networks was build a scale, national network (or as national as you could afford) – fill it as...
API’s, TM Forum Standards, Customer Satisfaction & Cost To Serve
API’s, TM Forum Standards, Customer Satisfaction & Cost To Serve – Fact or Fiction or a Challenge of Timing As the CP/Partner/SI and MSP markets accelerate to take the new NGA services from Openreach (OR) and the plethora of new Altnets – API’s and the order...
Openreach Chooses Nokia to Build Open-access Fiber Network to Connect Millions to Faster Broadband
Openreach Chooses Nokia to Build Open-access Fiber Network to Connect Millions to Faster Broadband .For those that haven’t seen this, this is a fascinating article covering the Nokia announcement. It explains the direction of travel as BTG & OR creates the Single...
Hybrid Connectivity – Mobile, Satellite & Fixed
Hybrid Connectivity - Mobile, Satellite & Fixed As Openreach (OR) accelerates the UK Copper & Exchange Closure Programmes this is a key enabler in potential “Not Spots, Unhabitable, Temporary Buildings, Telecare & IOT solutions , especially in the Complex...
Openreach Exchange Closure Pilots – The Blue Print/Playbook
Openreach Exchange Closure Pilots – The Blue Print/Playbook Openreach facilitated by the OTA have over the last 18 months been holding Industry Working Groups and BI lateral’s with all the large CP’s in the UK (Fixed/Mobile & Altnet) who use their services and...
Cash Is King
Cash Is King In the legacy Telco world across the Eco system from the Carrier through the partners/SI’s to the end customers billing has always been a “high focus/high effort activity”. The actual production, rating and collection can be highly automated, however...
The Innovators Dilemma
Speed To Market – The Challenge when The Amount Of Transformational Process & Network Innovation Plus BAU New Product Development Outstrips The Normal Capacity Of A BAU Telecoms Organisation – The Innovators Dilemma .The once in a generation move from Copper to...
Can Altnet’s Support The Openreach Exchange Closure Challenge?
Altnet Consolidation Over the next few years the winners and losers of the inevitable Altnet consolidation will emerge – its highly probable that there will be 5-10 Altnet survivors post consolidation plus Virgin in some form or other. The article from ISP Review -...
PSTN / 2G Switch Off & UK Network Evolution Group
PSTN / 2G Switch Off & UK Network Evolution This LinkedIn group is a fantastic place to meet other industry participants and discuss key issues driving the network evolution. Request to join the group here
Openreach Consultation – Exchange Exit List for Exit by 2030
Exchange Exit List for Exit by 2030 - Updated August 2025 Openreach have published an updated list of Exchanges which is available on their Exchange Exit page under Collateral. Exchange Exit List for Exit by 2030_Issue 28_published Aug 2025
Data is key to deliver a successful Migration Strategy – We seek it here and we seek it there?
Data the key foundation to planning To create a cost/risk balanced network transformation strategy and business case - having the right data becomes critical. Everyone who has every dealt with data in the telecommunications world understands the fragility of accurate...