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
Onlincolnshire is the product of a partnership between Lincolnshire Council and BT. Their wireless products cover much of Lincolnshire and offer up to 2Mbps symmetric speeds. This product is currently in use by over 100 businesses and is available for £49 a month (for 18 months) with no connection charge (The price after that is
Firstly, apologies for the lack of visible updates as of late. I’ve recently started a new job and have been working horrifically long hours! Rest assured that ISP data is still being updated in the background, so your exchange pages should be right up to date. With that said I’ll move on to a few
Last month we reported that eighteen exchanges in Scotland were being upgraded, either by having full ADSL installed or by having additional “Exchange Activate” capacity added. We now hear that a further four exchanges are being upgraded to full ADSL and another ten are being given additional Exchange Activate capacity.
The four additional exchanges to receive
The brand new Haydon Wick exchange finally came online this week after repeated delays. The exchange has been built to “accommodate growth in the area following commencement of a significant building development” (See original BT Openreach announcement from April).
About 2500 lines are being transferred from the neighbouring Blunsdon exchange. The following phone number prefixes will
The nice folks at NewNet have recently provided me with the roll-out data for their new 24Mbps ADSL2+ LLU products. Portsmouth central is the first exchange to get the new service, which is expected to go live early in August. Portsmouth North and Fareham are targeted for October.
NewNet’s CEO’s postings on the ThinkBroadband.com message boards
Coverage data for Smallworld Media has now been fully incorporated in to the website. Smallworld are a relatively new player in the broadband market, but are particularly interesting not just because of their triple-play offerings, but also because they operate both a cable and LLU ADSL2+ network (This is why they appear twice on the
Two changes have been made to the availability checker today. Firstly, AOL LLU data has now been fully incorporated in to the checker (and the rest of the site). The checker will now report whether or not AOL has unbundled your exchange. Similarly, you can view this information on your exchange page as well.
Sadly, the
Carphone’s targeted rollout of 1,000 exchanges just over a year ago has already been surpassed. No less than 1,134 exchanges have been unbundled now. What’s potentially even more interesting is that they are targetting a further 500 exchanges by March 2008 (see page 36 of CPW’s annual strategy day PDF). Also of interest in the
If 2006 truly was the “year of LLU”, then it appears that someone forgot to tell Be* (O2), Easynet (Sky) and Carphone Warehouse (TalkTalk) that we’re now in 2007. All three companies have started 2007 with the same fervour as they finished 2006 with.
LLU deployment in the past 12 months
It was under three weeks ago
I’ve added a couple of new LLU providers to the listings today - Lumison (a business ISP based operating in Scotland) and WB Internet. I’ve also updated the Carphone Warehouse / TalkTalk data en-mass, thanks to an update provided by the company themselves. In an effort to help out users of the site who are
Many of you have reported to me that the Bulldog data on the site is not truly reflective of what the Bulldog residential checker displays. This is because we take a feed from their wholesale checker, and whilst you might expect the information to tally closely, in quite a few cases it does not.
For this
Last week Be Unlimited worried more than a handful of end users when they removed nearly all the future enablement dates for exchanges from their website. However, they’re now back in force, with some 562 exchanges due to be unbundled in the future. A call with Be today has confirmed that this delay was just
Easynet announced some time ago that they would be rolling out their LLU service to 750 exchanges by the end of the year. Well, after being idle at 232 exchanges for over a year, it now seems that they’ve begun the next stage of their rollout. Five London exchanges - Stamford Hill, Streatham, Kneller Hall,
PlusNet today announced that, following successful trials, it has reached agreement with Tiscali UK for Tiscali to supply wholesale broadband network services to PlusNet utilising its Local Loop Unbundled (LLU) infrastructure.
Speeds up to 8Mb will be available within Tiscali’s LLU service areas using ADSL and speeds of up to 24Mb will be possible in areas
Today the last exchange in Surrey was enabled Forest Green, this now provides the area with 100% enablement of exchanges.
More information can be found here on the Connected Surrey Partnership site.
Today BSkyB outlined plans to bring the total number of LLU exchanges to 750 by the end of 2006 and 1,200 by 2007. This is equivalent to about 70 percent of homes, their current rollout only reaches 20 percent of homes in the UK.
You can find a list of the existing Easynet enabled exchanges here.
Homechoice customers can now benefit from a speed upgrade for free.
1Mb becomes 2Mb and the 2Mb service becomes 4Mb.
On the Homechoice website they are now offering connections at upto 8Mb.
There coverage is fairly limited to within the M25 and Stevenage at the moment this may change in the coming months.
List of exchanges can be found
Broadband uptake in Wales has grown by 14% in the last year according to research undertaken by the Welsh Assembly Governments Broadband Wales Programme. The survey, of 5,500 residents across the 22 Local Authorities, shows a phenomenal two in five (39%) Welsh residents now have broadband
In January 2005, Cardiff boasted the highest level of