Network access provider Openreach (BT) has today confirmed our report from last month (here) and revealed that they will withdraw, from new sale (provision), the once popular 40Mbps (2Mbps) upload tier for their Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC / VDSL2) based broadband ISP lines – effective from 24th April 2025.
As we said last month, Openreach does occasionally withdraw legacy tiers, usually due to a lack of demand by Communication Providers (inc. end-customers) or just to help simplify their product portfolio – often a combination of both. The operator said, “this speed tier has been superseded by faster variants offered at the same or lower price“.
Existing customers on the withdrawn tiers will not be impacted, as the change only impacts new provisions. In this case, the operator’s 40/2 speed tier has long been superseded by the regulated 40/10 tier, and so its “stop sell” should not come as a huge surprise. The related briefing can be read here, although most of it is private.