BT have issued notification of Wholesale price changes that will take effect on Dec 1st and Jan 1st 2009.
There are many changes, both up and down, some examples are :-
A 5% increase in the annual rental of a fixed speed end user IPStream connection to £8.01 per month (ex VAT, Wholesale) from 1/12/08.
A 4.1% decrease
Orange will relaunch its home broadband service online on Monday with an offer of free broadband for all its pay monthly mobile customers. Previously the offer had been limited to pay monthly customers on a tariff of £30 or more. The offer is currently available in-store and on telesales but will be promoted online from
The marketeers efforts to capture the 40% of households that don’t have broadband continue, using the lure of a "free" (ie inclusive) laptop tied in with a very long contract term on 3G mobile broadband (or in some cases fixed line broadband). This is fairly clever in that someone without a
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
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
Orange have today introduced a new broadband pricing structure that sees them differentiate pricing according to coverage of their LLU (Local Loop Unbundling) network. Like other LLU operators including TalkTalk and Sky, Orange provide broadband services over their own LLU network where they have coverage and fall back to BT’s IPStream network where they do
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
BT Wholesale’s Consult21 team have published indicative trial pricing for the Real Time QoS option for the new Wholesale Broadband Connect product. As with the pricing for Assured Sessions (the other QoS option), there is a massive difference between pricing between “Band 1 exchanges” and “Band 2 exchanges” (of which there are ~1016 and ~4500
AOL UK have today launched new pricing for their broadband services. The new pricing raises the cost of AOL broadband on non-LLU exchanges, and keeps the cost the same for AOL unbundled exchanges. It is believed that AOL have currently unbundled around 390 exchanges, and plans to increase this number significantly over the next year.
It has been advertised for a couple of weeks now and common knowledge for even longer, but today it’s official - Wanadoo are to rebrand to Orange as of tomorrow.
In conjunction with this announcement, they have also launched their ‘free’ broadband service as well. As expected, this requires you to have a £30+ per month
Be, today launched ‘Be home 24 meg’ - the UK’s fastest broadband service.
For just £24 per month, Be offers it’s members speeds up to 24 megs and limitless
24 hour per day access to the Internet, using the free, wireless Be Box modem.
Be’s 24 meg service represents an exponential leap for Internet users. Just one of
their
UkOnline have been conducting trials with parent company Easynet since March this year.
In reaction to Be Unlimited offering consumer trials of the 24Meg service in the London area, UkOnline are looking at beginning consumer trials immediately.
“UK Online’s groundbreaking broadband service offering speeds of up to 24Mb
will be available in October, for under £30 a month.”
Consumers
Be Unlimited are offering 24Meg download and 1Meg upload, unlimited internet access.
On 24 exchanges in the London area, we are in the process of enquiring into where those 24 exchanges are to a better level of detail.
The home service is priced at £20 per month for lift once the trial is completed. We would expect
Following a successful three month trial, BT Wholesale have announced that the trial for IP Stream 2000 has completed and the product will be launched on the 10/02/2005.
Whilst many ISP’s have been offering 2Mbps connections for a reasonable price for some time now, these have been based upon Office 20:1 connections. This new product extends
In the past few days we’ve heard rumours of NTL boosting their maximum broadband speed from 1.5Mbps to 3Mbps. Some have suggested that this brings them closer in line with Telwest, who have been offering 3Mbps BlueYonder services since this summer. These upgrades by NTL have apparently been made possible by wide-scale network improvements over
The Register is carrying the news that BT Wholesale have dropped their LLU prices again this year.
The latest announcement, which follows from the one in May, sees the connection charge to service providers fall from £83.33 to just £37.00. Further indications of just how seriously BT is now taking LLU can be seen in their
BT Wholesale have today released pricing information for their new Home 250 product, which is to be launched on the 1st September 2004.
The notification to Ofcom confirms pricing details first revealed back in April.
The standard charging rate will be £12.25+VAT per month (that’s only 75 pence less than a Home 500 connection), whereas the capacity
BT Wholesale have this afternoon told service providers that the prices of the business products “IPStream Office” and “IPStream S” are to rise from the 1st September 2004.
The price rises affect the standard charging model only, and are as follows:
Product
Old price
New price
Increase
IPStream Office 500
£18.00
£20.41
13%
IPStream Office 1000
£28.00
£32.64
16%
IPStream Office 2000
£43.00
£57.00
33%
IPStream S 500
£23.00
£25.41
10%
IPStream S 1000
£33.00
£37.64
14%
IPStream S 2000
£48.00
£62.00
29%
These changes
Following the migration price cuts that came into effect on the 1st May, BT have now reduced the pricing for regrades between IPStream products. the wholesale charge has been reduced from £35 to £11. The original pricing notification to Ofcom can be found here.
This, coupled with last months announcement, means that a DataStream user with
NTL have today announced plans to upgrade their cable network in Ireland by the end of 2006. The entire process is estimated to cost €100 million (approx £66.6 million at current rates).
The plans involve delivering broadband over their cable network to 100,000 homes by the end of this year, and then the remainder of their