UK gov walks barrier-busting tightrope in bid to ease MDU connectivity headaches
Government sets so-called Barrier Busting Task Force to work, aiming to remove blockers to Gigabit upgrades at multi-dwelling units and apartment blocks. Openreach welcomes the proposals, but Whitehall must avoid giving the incumbent any inadvertent advantage…
This article includes:
- Organisations: Barrier Busting Task Force; Building Digital UK (BDUK); CityFibre; Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT); Digital Infrastructure Directorate; Hyperoptic; Internet Service Providers’ Association (ISPA); nexfibre; Openreach; Ordnance Survey; UK government.
- Geographies: Europe; United Kingdom (UK).
- People: Giles Rowbotham; Mark Shurmer; Dana Tobak.
- Themes: Altnets; Apartment blocks; Broadband; Competition; Connectivity; Coverage; Deployment; Digital infrastructure; Fibre (FTTP); Fibre rollout; Freeholders; Gigabit connectivity; Housing associations; Infrastructure; Landlords; Leaseholders; Legislation; Multi-dwelling units (MDU); Network operators; Planning reform; Property access; Regulation; Tenants; Upgrade rights.
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