Vodafone is reported to be in early talks with BT's Openreach service about a joint investment in a large-scale "fibre to the premises" (FTTP) broadband network. Openreach is consulting on plans to offer a 1 Gbps service to up to 10 million premises in the UK by 2025 and is open to co-investment models to achieve it. Making this possible could require Vodafone to take over an existing internet service provider to add scale, with Sky Broadband and TalkTalk as the most likely options. Currently Openreach only plan to reach 2 million premises with FTTP by 2020 and they claim that to go further would require greater industry collaboration (i.e. new investment, risk and cost sharing models), as well as improved planning and traffic management processes, a friendlier regulatory environment to help protect the investment and an agreement on how mass migration of customers onto the new platform can be achieved. The report also says that BT has been looking at ways of using its spectrum for FTTP deployment, including offering it to other telecoms companies or even selling off some of it, but so far
Vodafone is reported to be in early talks with BT's Openreach service about a joint investment in a large-scale "fibre to the premises" (FTTP) broadband network. Openreach is consulting on plans to offer a 1 Gbps service to up to 10 million premises in the UK by 2025 and is open to co-investment models to achieve it. Making this possible could require Vodafone to take over an existing internet service provider to add scale, with Sky Broadband and TalkTalk as the most likely options. The report also says that BT has been looking at ways of using its spectrum for FTTP deployment, including offering it to other telecoms companies or even selling off some of it, but so far