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Most LLU operators only unbundle the broadband service, leaving the traditional telephone service using BT's core equipment (with or without the provision of [[carrier preselect]]). When the traditional telephone service is also unbundled (full LLU), operators usually prohibit selected calls being made with the networks of other telephone providers (i.e. accessed using a three- to five-digit prefix beginning with '1'). These calls can usually still be made by using an 0800 or other non-geographic (NGN) access code.

Although regulators in the UK admitted that the market could become competitive over time, the purpose of mandatory local loop unbundling in the United Kingdom was to speed up the delivery of advanced services to consumers.<ref>{{cite journal |first1=Jerry A. |last1=Hausman |first2=J. Gregory |last2=Sidak |title=Did Mandatory Unbundling Achieve Its Purpose? Empirical Evidence from Five Countries |volume=1 |issue=1 |journal=Journal of Competition Law and Economics |pages=173–245 |date=March 2005 |url=https://academic.oup.com/jcle/article-abstract/1/1/173/848962 |doi=10.1093/joclec/nhi005 |publisher=Oxford University Press |access-date=14 August 2022|hdl=1721.1/63450 |hdl-access=free |url-access=subscription }}</ref>

===United States===

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* A regulatory guideline should be established and managed by ICASA to guarantee that strategic issues like the quality of the local loop be optimised for the regulation and delivery of services

Based on this report, the Minister issued policy directives to ICASA to undergo the unbundling process.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.doc.gov.za/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_view&gid=47 |title=Local Loop Unbundling: A Way Forward for South Africa |format=PDF |work=The Local Loop Unbundling Committee |date=May 23, 2007 |access-date=2008-04-15}}</ref> At the end of March 2010, nothing had occuredoccurred; however, a deadline of 1 November 2011 was set by the Minister of Communications for the monopoly holder, [[Telkom SA]], to finalise the unbundling process.{{citation needed|date=April 2015}}

==See also==

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==External links==

* [http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/25/24/6869228.pdf OECD, Developments in Local Loop Unbundling]

* [http://www.samknows.com/broadband/llu-league.php LLU Exchange List]

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20150709014106/http://ec.europa.eu/competition/liberalisation/overview_en.html EU telecommunications liberalization framework]

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130514034337/http://www.mlltelecom.com/what-we-do/local-loop-unbundling Local Loop Unbundling - What is it?]