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
The Register is reporting that BT have launched a wholesale two-way satellite service. This will apparently “help make 100 per cent UK broadband coverage a reality by offering businesses high-speed Internet services in areas that cannot get ADSL”.
The wholesale prices for the service are not cheap, at £46.99 per month for the “Satellite Broadband 500
Eclipse Internet have today launched a new range of ADSL services that offer flexible bandwidth to end users. Customers are charged a flat monthly rate and can temporarily increase their speed by “FLEX”ing - for a small hourly charge. There is no monthly data usage cap on any of the products.
The following table depicts the
The Sheffield based ISP PlusNet have launched a new range of products built upon the new capacity-charging system launched by BT Wholesale on Friday.
The products include the standard 512Kbps, 1Mbps and 2Mbps speeds, but allow you to set your own monthly download cap. The base price for 2Mbps is £31.99 inc VAT per month (4GB
BT have announced a wholesale reduction in Datastream pricing of £1 per month. The change, effective as of June 1st, means that ISP’s will now be charged £74.60 per year per Datastream line. The announcement to Ofcom can be found here.
In addition to this, BT’s new capacity charging product goes live tomorrow (May 28th). Until
LTT Broadband, the wireless provider covering areas in West Kent and East Sussex, have now launched their new 4Mbps symmetric broadband product. The pricing for the service, at £280 per month, is obviously targetted at business users. The contention ration for the service is not yet known, however, looking at other products form LTT, it’s
Telewest have now confirmed that users of their Blueyonder cable internet service have completed their free 50% speed increase. The good news comes two weeks earlier than expected - a surprise bonus for the 498,000 Blueyonder broadband users [Source: Telewest Q1 2004 Financial Results]. Please note that many of these will be using the 256Kbps
This morning BT have announced that they will be reducing LLU (Local Loop Unbundling) charges by up to 70%.
In a series of phased price cuts, due to start June 1st, BT will significantly reduce the cost of LLU connection and line rental. The June 1st price cuts will see the monthly line rental charge fall
UK Broadband, a wholly-owned subsidary of PCCW, have launched their wireless broadband service. The new service is called Netvigator and operates in the 3.4Ghz spectrum. Last year UK Broadband managed to acquire all 15 3.4Ghz licenses, allowing for national coverage. The new service is currently in operation in Aldershot, Maidenhead, Reading, Slough, Windsor and Wokingham.
The pre-registration scheme may have drawn its last breath, but the news just keeps on coming.
BT have today announced the reduction in cost of IPStream ADSL (the standard type of connection) migrations from £35 +VAT to £11 +VAT. Whilst this is a wholesale price, most ISP’s will pass on this price saving to end-users, effectively
BT Retail received a lot of criticism last week when it announced its new “Broadband Basic” package for £19.99 per month, with a 1GB download limit attached. They even managed to annoy Tiscali with an advert about Tiscali’s 150K “broadband” services.
Not to be outdone though, Tiscali have announced that they too will be launching a
BT Wholesale today announced that they will be offering usage based broadband product to service providers from later this year.
The new system would allow for service providers to select the maximum network bandwidth (similar to what happens now), or the maximum network usage (data transfer) per month.
Both of these new options would be cheaper than