At the tail end of last week BT Wholesale published an update to it’s Wholesale Broadband Connect (WBC) rollout data. The update brings expected Ready For Service (RFS) dates for a further 1200 telephone exchanges nationwide.
WBC, as we discuss at length in our guide, is BT’s next generation wholesale product that is sold to ISPs.
Yesterday’s news about FTTH created a stir, but what might a fibre service cost ?
Part of the answer is already in the public domain, from BT Openreach and BT Wholesale announcements relating to the Ebbsfleet pilot.
The fibre connection charge will be £130 and the monthly rental for a 10Mbits/s downstream (bursting to 30M) service will
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently announced plans for a free broadband service to cover the country. The service will be based upon what are now known as “advanced wireless services” which can include a range of technologies from 3G to the latest broadband delivery system. As has become very common in
South Derbyshire District Council have for some time now being raising questions about the standard of broadband provision in their district and challenging BT to address the problem.
Using our exchange checker we can see that three of the exchanges in the area (Swadlincote, Peartree and Mickleover) have a full set of LLU services so there
The Scottish Government has awarded a £3.3m contract to Avanti to bring broadband to some 3,800 properties who registered and were validated as not being able to access existing services.
The notspots, or should that be naespots, will receive either an individual satellite broadband solution or a wireless service with the wireless network being connected via
Entanet’s retailers have become popular ISPs with broadband enthusiasts in part due to their well defined monthly download allowances and lack of complex traffic profiling systems. They have tended to poke fun at the “unlimited” providers from this position of clarity and openness which includes publishing the loads on their BT Central infrastructure.
This position may
OFCOM have tweaked the process for handling the situation where a customer finds they cannot order broadband due to a “tag on the line”. This usually arises when a service is already present on a phone line that prevents an ISP ordering ADSL from BT Wholesale, or prevents a LLU operator gaining access to the
The government’s leading advisory group has warned that before ‘next generation’ services are launched the business model behind broadband will need to change.
The Broadband Stakeholders Group released findings earlier this week that suggested the £16bn required to build fibre connections to 80% of UK homes would lead to a positive social and economic gain for
Over the weekend we have incorporated coverage data for a further three wireless broadband ISPs.
Kijoma offer wireless broadband services at up to 10Mbps down by 2Mbps up in parts of Wiltshire, Sussex, Devon and Wales. Their focus is on areas where traditional fixed-line broadband services perform poorly (typically due to line length or quality).
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BT Wholesale have at last released the schedule for the first 868 exchanges to be activated for Wholesale Broadband Connect, their new 21CN broadband product. The new product will bring ADSL2+ nationwide, but may take until 2012 to reach the most remote areas of the UK.
At present we’re seeing 39 exchanges enabled for WBC already,
Be Unlimited have this morning announced plans to expand their network by nearly 400 exchanges within the next four months. This represents a 50% increase in their exchange footprint and will give them the second largest LLU network in the UK. Their 1245 unbundled exchanges will be trumped only by TalkTalk’s 1645. Be’s network of
Whilst some of the larger LLU operators such as Sky and O2 may be slowing their roll out, many of the smaller operators are accelerating rapidly.
Entanet this week provided us with a list of 18 exchanges they intend to launch their LLU-based “Ethernet First Mile” service at. This service, first launched in October 2007 at
On Thursday afternoon, Be (owned by O2) announced to their members that they could no longer accept new orders for customers on the Poplar exchange. This may seem rather unimportant at first glance, but the reason behind it is actually quite interesting.
According to Brett Coles, Head of Member Services at Be, the root issue is
Hot on the heels of last week’s news that Bulldog were cutting off all of their SDSL clients, it now seems that Bulldog is accepting no new customers at all.
Whilst the Bulldog website still speaks of its products on various pages, anyone attempting to buy any products or perform an availability check is redirected to
Tiscali, who own both Pipex and Bulldog, have been angering both their residential and business customers this week.
Tiscali have begun migrating Pipex’s ADSL customers on to their LLU network, which covers some 731 exchanges. Concerned Pipex users have been contacting us about the move, with users complaining of issues ranging from poor speeds and latency,
It seems that at the beginning of each year someone somewhere heralds the coming year as being the “year of broadband”. 2007 was no different, with many predicting that LLU would truly take off. In many ways this has held true - there are now in excess of 3 million unbundled lines in the UK,
Our wholesale broadband checker now supports address based checking. This is ideal if you don’t have a BT phone line but want to receive an accurate result! Address level resolution data is available for all BT Wholesale based ADSL services, BT Wholesale SDSL and Virgin Media cable services.
The Availability Checker API has been updated to
The latest Broadband Working Group slides from BT’s Consult21 seem to demonstrate growing unease amongst the ISPs over BT Wholesale’s 21CN plans.
In the minutes of the 26th September meeting representatives of Sky, Tiscali, Orange and even BT Retail all voiced their dissatisfaction over proposals to switch from a two step migration process (20CN IPStream to
Entanet have this afternoon announced that they will be unbundling two exchanges over the next 6 weeks in order to provide uncontended “ethernet first mile” solutions. In optimum conditions the service is capable of up to 100Mbps symmetric speeds by utilising 40 bonded SDSL circuits. Businesses with particularly long lines will also be pleased to
Yesterday saw the launch of Simplifydigital, a new digital services advice company. They aim to take the complexity out of choosing broadband, TV and phone services by tailoring a package to suit your individual needs. Whilst there are parallels between Simplifdigital and online comparison sites, Simplifydigital are breaking the mould by offering impartial advice