A regulators requirement that incumbent telecoms companies allow other operators to use their local loops at wholesale rates.... more on: Local loop unbundling
LLU was mandated by the EU in December 2000. It requires those operators designated as having significant market power) to make their local networks (i.e. the telephone lines that run from a customer's premises to the local telephone exchange) available to other telecommunications companies.
Local Loop Unbundling is the process where the incumbent operator (BT or Kingston) makes its local network (the copper cables that run from customers' premises to the telephone exchange) available to other companies. Service providers are then able to upgrade individual lines using DSL technology to offer services such as always on high speed Internet access, direct to the customer.
a requirement on the incumbent in the telecommunications market to make available to other providers individual components of its network, so that other providers can offer a full range of competitive telecommunications services.
Local loop unbundling will mean that other operators will be able to 'own' BT's access network connection between the customers' premises and the local exchange (generally, the digital local exchange), which is usually a loop comprising of two copper wires. The customer would then be able to choose another supplier to provide service, and would cease to have a contract with BT.
a process by which an incumbent's exchange lines (local loops) are physically disconnected from it's network and connected to other operators' networks. This enables operators other than the incumbent to use the local loop to provide services directly to customers.
a process by which BT's exchange lines are physically disconnected from BT's network and connected to other operators' networks. This enables operators other than BT to use the BT local loop to provide services to customers.
The process where the incumbent operator makes its local network (the connection between the customer's premises and the local exchange) available to other companies. The customer is then able to choose another supplier other than the incumbent to provide service.
The process of local loop unbundling is to give other operators access to the local loop that runs between the consumers premises and BT’s local exchange. The operator can then offer high speed DSL services over the loop in addition to normal telephony service.
This is the process by which BT's exchange lines become physically disconnected from the BT network and then connected to another operators' network. This enables an operator other than BT to be able use BT's local loop and to provide services to customers.
Local loop unbundling (LLU) is the regulatory process of allowing multiple locally- and national-based telecommunications operators to make use of connections from the telephone exchange's central office to the customer's premises. The physical wire connection between customer and company is known as a "local loop," and it is owned by the incumbent local exchange carrier, (also referred to as the "ILEC," "local exchange," or in the U.S, "Baby Bell").
