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By 14 January 2006, 210,000 local loop connections had been unbundled from [[BT Group|BT]] operation under local loop unbundling. [[Ofcom]] had hoped that 1 million local loop connections would be unbundled by June 2006. However, as reported by [https://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/15/llu_openreach/ The Register], on 15 June 2006, the figure had reached only 500,000, but was growing by 20,000 a week. Ofcom announced in November 2006 that 1,000,000 connections had been unbundled.<ref>{{Cite web |url= http://www.offta.org.uk/updates/otaupdate20061107.htm |title=News {{!}} Office of the Telecoms Adjudicator |access-date=2016-02-05 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160304105755/http://www.offta.org.uk/updates/otaupdate20061107.htm |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=live }}</ref> By April 2007, the figure was 2,000,000.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.offta.org.uk/charts.htm |title=Charts {{!}} Office of the Telecoms Adjudicator |access-date=2007-05-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070423050243/http://offta.org.uk/charts.htm |archive-date=2007-04-23 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
By June 2006, AOL UK had unbundled 100,000 lines through its £120 million investment,<ref>OFCOM The Communications Market: Broadband. Digital Progress Report. Research Report. April 2, 2007. Obtained from https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0021/16185/broadband_rpt.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180723135130/https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0021/16185/broadband_rpt.pdf |date=2018-07-23 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Richardson|first=Tim|date=30 June 2006|title=AOL UK chalks up 100k LLU lines|url=https://www.theregister.com/2006/06/30/aol_llu/|website=[[The Register]]|language=en}}</ref>
On 10 October 2006, [[Carphone Warehouse]] announced the purchase of [[AOL]] UK, the leading LLU operator, for £370m.<ref>
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