News of External NTE

BT Openreach will discontinue the use of the XNTE when current stocks are exhausted. This is due to the fact that the new vDSL services require a SSFP (Service Specific Face Plate) which in turn require.....an NTE5 socket!! We saw this coming from day 1!! If you have an XNTE and upgrade to vDSL then the Openreach engineer will gel crimp your internal wiring directly to the BT pair outside. The XNTE will become nothing ...

As the external NTE is fitted to more & more homes the issue of centralised ADSL filtering is becoming more of an issue. You will be pleased to learn you can fit a standard NTE5A to the external NTE and then fit a centralised ADSL faceplate such as the NTE2000 or NTE2005 to the new NTE5A to achieve centralised filtering. All extensions wire off the new NTE5A as they would on the more common NTE5 ...

Openreach have started to fit external NTE's in place of the popular NTE5 socket. The only real benefit is to Openreach themselves as the new socket means they can easily disconnect any internal wiring & diagnose line faults without requiring entry to the premises. However, if you have ADSL then you should consider changing the first socket on any internal wiring so you can benefit from a centralised ADSL faceplate such as the NTE2000, NTE2005 ...