21/02/2023 

For Information

This briefing is for all Communications Providers (CPs).

This briefing provides two years’ advance notice of a pricing special offer on FTTC/SOGEA 55/10 & 80/20 & Gfast/SOGfast 160/30 for the period from 1 March 2025 to 31 August 2025.

Openreach is pleased to announce an extension to the GEA special offer which will come into effect once the current offer comes to an end on 28 February 2025.

The current offer is available to see at: GEN052/22 (openreach.co.uk)

The extension will cover the period between 1 March 2025 and 31 August 2025. The GEA, SOGEA, Gfast and SOGfast contract terms and conditions will apply but the special offer is not subject to any Communications Provider commitments.

We are continuing to explore options for providing further pricing certainty beyond this period, with up to two years’ notice provided.

We have decided to notify prices applicable from 1 March 2025 until 31 August 2025 to ensure our CPs and their customers can continue to benefit from the discounted prices CPs are familiar with under the current GEA special offer.

The discounted prices will be available during the Offer Period on FTTC/SOGEA 55/10 & 80/20 & Gfast/SOGfast 160/30 across Great Britain and Northern Ireland and will not be subject to any commitments from CPs. It will be available to all CPs.

These offer prices are made available on the basis that the Communications Provider will pay the current standard prices for the services in accordance with the terms and conditions for the service for the period concerned. Openreach will, within 30 days of the end of the period, calculate and pay to the Communications Provider a rebate equal to the difference between the standard prices paid by the Communications Provider for the service and for that six monthly cycle and the offer price, with rebates made payable in the October billing month.  Any rebate is subject to the standard terms and conditions for the service.      

We have also clarified the terms and conditions in all the previous GEA special offer pricing extensions that the Communications Provider must pay the applicable standard price for the services in accordance with the applicable terms and conditions and that rebates will be calculated and paid within 30 days of the end of relevant period.

For the first extension taking effect from 21 August 2023 the prices will be shown as £13.33 (80/20) and £39.99 (160/30) in addition to the rental price for GEA FTTC up to 40Mbit/s downstream and up to 10Mbit/s upstream to reflect the October 2022 CPI rate of 11.1%. The pricing has now been updated in the price list to reflect the new values that will be in effect.

Moving forward the £13.33 or £39.99 additional charges will be indexed using the CPI for the 12 months to 31 October 2023 for the period from 1 April 2024 onwards, then further indexed using the CPI for the 12 months to 31 October 2024, or 0% whichever is the highest, for the period from 1 April 2025 onwards.

Details of the pricing across all GEA special offer extensions can be found on the Openreach website.

Eligibility criteria

All CPs (including those who did not sign up to the current GEA special offer) are eligible to take advantage of the pricing in this special offer.

How CPs can take advantage of this special offer

The special offer price announced here will apply automatically, for the duration of the Offer Period.

Pricing

This briefing supports ACCN OR835.

More information

If you've any questions about this briefing, please get in touch with your business development manager or customer experience manager.