According to the Telegraph the January 2001 deadline to unbundle the local loop will not be met because BT's competitors cannot get physical access to the telephone exchanges and deploy the necessary equipment.
Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) is another option, which normally uses what is known as the Wireless Local Loop (WLL), which (as its name suggests) allows operators to offer a "last mile" system that does not use the copper or fibre-optic cables in...
Nokia believes the areas that will see the most growth in the years to come are India, Latin America and Russia - and it's the latter that may hit the ground running, with a predicted 60 million users and 200 per cent growth in five years time.
AOL is investing millions in local loop unbundling (LLU), a move designed to help it compete in a higher speed, service-orientated broadband market. Local loop unbundling has become flavour of the month among several ISPs - Wanadoo announced last...
With the advent of local loop unbundling - where ISPs can effectively take over a telephone exchange by putting in their own equipment - speeds are expected to rise. While ISPs have been falling over themselves to provide next generation broadband...
Be is aiming to install its equipment in a further 300 exchanges - via a process known as local-loop unbundling - by the end of this summer. Be, the next-generation broadband network operator purchased by O2 last June, has extended its network to...