Technologies

Speed degrades with distance from exchange

Traditionally, to deliver broadband to a premise, you needed to have a traditional phone line installed and then ADSL fibre broadband or fibre provided on top of it.

Openreach now delivers a single order version of fibre broadband and GFast fibre broadband that means the provider does not have to install a traditional copper phone line to compliment the service. SOGEA (Single Order Generic Ethernet Access) includes an underlying version of a phone line. Benefits include: lower costs as the combined cost of a phone line and broadband is slightly more expensive than SOGEA – but this does vary from provider to provider; quicker to install with lead times as little as five days; faults can now be resolved much more quickly as the customer only needs to make one support call to their provider; easier home working solutions; improved reliability as there are no copper phone line frequencies being used, there is less of a chance of interference and an unstable connection.

SOGEA is not available everywhere in the UK but over 28 million premises can connect with more being added all the time.

LineBroker will check availability at your premises.