Carphone Warehouse believes a slowdown in broadband connections is down to the housing slump rather than an indication we have moved to a predominantly ’switcher’ market.
Shares in the group fell 10% yesterday as its Chief Executive Charles Dunstone admitted that so far this year new, net broadband customers were down on expectations. An assertion that
OFCOM have opened a consultation looking at the future pricing structure for BT’s Openreach division.
Openreach owns and runs the BT “local loop” copper network and charges other divisions of BT and other operators for use of the lines. As the local loop is an effective monopoly the pricing is regulated by OFCOM.
Currently the prices charged
Vodafone has today been discussing the companies future strategy with analysts following this mornings announcement of a £14.9bn loss. According to Reuters, the worlds largest mobile operator is considering unbundling exchanges in order to provide broadband services. This has added credence to earlier rumours that Vodafone was looking at acquiring an existing LLU operator, such
Be, Bulldog, Easynet, Wanadoo and even HomeChoice have all been busy unbundling exchanges recently. There’s too many exchanges to list here so, I’ll just give a brief summary for each provider and refer you to the relevant provider page where you can see the full lists (ordered by enablement date).
Be Unlimited have been continuing their
Just under a year ago, Cable and Wireless announced their year-end results for March 2005. Within this they stated that they planned to have 600 exchanges unbundled by Bulldog by March 2006, and 800 by late autumn 2006. Anyone familiar with the figures though will know that Bulldog have remained static at around 410 exchanges
BT have today announced that they have signed the remaining four contracts for suppliers for the 21st Century Network rollout. Rather unsurprisingly, Alcatel, Cisco, Ericsson and Fujitsu are the four additional prefered suppliers that now join the existing list of Ciena, Huawei, Lucent and Siemens.
BT’s 21CN plans involve moving the entire telecommunications network to an
HomeChoice, Easynet, Bulldog and now NTL have all issued announcements about new LLU rollouts this month. It seems that the recent LLU price cuts by BT really are attracting new investment. Anyway, a brief summary of the LLU activities of late seems to be in order…
HomeChoice have confirmed the deployment of LLU services to Deptford,
The UK Broadband Usergroup are celebrating their first birthday in style by offering a years free subscription to Hi-Velocity’s uncapped 1Mbps ADSL service, complete with wireless router and a trip to a fancy London restaurant.
The competition ends 17th September at 10am, so you’ve got plenty of time to get those entries in!
You can find the
UK-Bug are today leading with the news that Bulldog is to discontinue the resale of its most popular products. This is a surprising move given the recent launch of the promising products Bulldog4 and Bulldog 2&2, a 4Mbps ADSL connection and a 2Mbps SDSL connection respectively.
The move sees all ADSL Datastream, LLU ADSL and LLU
Cable and Wireless have announced this morning that they have purchased Bulldog Communications for £18.6 million. The original press release can be found here.
Rumours of such a deal have been floating around for some time now, so for many it will not be too much of a surprise.
Bulldog have been criticised in recent months for