The new terms for BT Home Essentials (applicable from 2 May 2025) do also show the new tariff called Home Essentials Unlimited Broadband, which is only available where fibre (FTTC ...

Understanding FTTP is key to understanding BT stock. BT is heavily investing in FTTP technology as part of its strategy to upgrade the UK’s broadband infrastructure. FTTP provides ultrafast ...

Openreach is BT's wholesale division which supplies full fibre services to many broadband operators (including BT/EE/PlusNet but also others such as Zen Internet, Sky, TalkTalk, etc). It has announced ...

Firstly, FTTP offers higher ARPU than traditional copper wiring, but it also offers cost savings. Fibre cables typically require less maintenance, and this means fewer maintenance staff.

BT, meanwhile, aims to roll out FTTP connections to two million premises by 2020. In an undisguised dig at BT, which largely uses twisted-pair copper cabling to connect customers' homes to the ...

BT has postponed the upgrade of its exchanges in preparation for rollout of fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) service as a result of technical issues. The upgrade has been postponed from September 2011 ...

Most recently Barclays (BARC.L) downgraded BT to underperform and lowered its price target. This was due to increased competition in the UK broadband market and expectations of market share losses.

Around two thirds of homes can also access ultrafast BT broadband via fibre-optic technology called 'G.fast' or 'fibre to the premises' (FTTP). BT's full fibre offerings have average speeds starting ...