Those are LLU providers but they also supply the BT packages like you have mentioned in areas where an LLU is not financially viable, all those services are managed by BT and each company has to buy the bandwidth of BT so your right in the fact that BT can do whatever they like and you can’t do anything about it as there are no LLU’s. Orange are moving away from LLU and on to BT white label services which are similar and explained in a quote i found on a website which i will put at the bottom, they are basically ripping their customers off though as the white label has a max speed of 8mbps whereas LLU's have a max of 24mbps so all the customer’s being moved are effectively downgraded, nice of them eh. Company costs come before customer’s, number one rule in business, or is that the customer always comes first, obviously the orange execs didn’t know either
White Label
These products will be managed and maintained completely by BT Wholesale, leaving communications providers free to focus on the sales and marketing of products.
White Label Managed Services will remove the need for communications providers to build, support and maintain their own networks, products, back office systems and customer support facilities.
Communications providers of all sizes, including companies looking to diversify into communications, will be able to enter the market for bundled broadband, voice and converged services significantly faster, at lower costs and with greatly reduced implementation risk. Vodafone UK became the first customer for the service to support the launch of its consumer fixed-line broadband services, Vodafone At Home, earlier this year.
