Time Warner will invest £120 million pounds ($214.65 million) in its British ISP, AOL UK, in Local Loop Unbundling (LLU). Ofcom’s recent mandates on LLU and the Strategic Review of Telecommunications has provided AOL with an opportunity to bring large-scale competition into UK’s national telephone network and also catch up with other European countries.



AOL’s unbundled services will be ADSL2+ compatible that will create the potential for 8+ mbps.



The first phase will take place in the first half of 2006 that will involve installing DSLAMs in 300 of BT’s exchanges reaching 20 percent of UK households at a cost of £50 million. This roll out will be extended to up to 1,000 exchanges reaching 50 percent of UK households at an additional investment of £70 million if it turns out to be successful.



AOL U.K. has more than 1.1 million broadband subscribers as of November 2005.





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