WLR3

BT Openreach has been set up to manage the physical network of cables that connect customer premises with the various exchanges.

Communication Providers such as Pace Telecom will purchase access products from BT Openreach and resell them to their own clients and partners.

It has also been set up to ensure that Pace Telecom have equivalent access to the network and in particular equivalence with BT Retail. The products provided by Pace Telecom will include:

Analogue Lines, Analogue multiline, ISDN2e, ISDN30e.

These access products will enable Pace Telecom to provide additional services to their Partners including:

Calls via BT Wholesale, CPS or LCR,  and Broadband

In order to manage the network service fulfilment and assurance, BT Openreach have implemented a new system known as the Equivalence Management Platform (EMP). Pace Telecom will access the EMP via Wholesale Line Rental (WLR3) which will in time replace the WLR2 gateway previously provided by BT Wholesale.

Initially WLR3 will only enable service fulfilment and assurance of analogue lines but it is planned to add all the access products to WLR3 by the mid/end of 2007.

Unlike WLR2, WLR3 does not have a standard web portal available to place orders. Instead, Pace Telecom has developed their own gateway called Milo 3 which provides our partners with all of the vast functionality of WLR 3.  Via its long standing relationship with BT Openreach Pace Telecom will be one of the very first to offer these services.