Following the announcement last October that BT Scotland were teaming up with THUS to provide broadband to Stornoway, Kirkwall and Lerwick, BT have today announced that all three exchanges will go live on May 26th.
BT are leasing wireless connectivity from THUS between their mainland network and the islands. It seems that the work, which will
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
This miserable Wednesday morning (here in Bath at least!) brings us a fresh batch of 40 RFS dates. BT informs us that their checker will not update for a day or two.
The dates are as follows:
Ilchester 4/8/04
Acle 25/8/04
Almondbank 25/8/04
Bridge Of Earn 25/8/04
Bucknell 25/8/04
Cadnam 25/8/04
Chipping Warden 25/8/04
Constantine 25/8/04
Drighlington 25/8/04
Feughside 25/8/04
Haynes 25/8/04
Ickford 25/8/04
Killingholme 25/8/04
Muirhead 25/8/04
Newton St Cyres
Since the pre-registration scheme was introduced back in June 2002, 909,087 unique pre-registrations have been entered into BT’s systems. As a result of this, 2734 exchanges will have been enabled (includes those with RFS dates). Since the November 17th announcement of 2300 new trigger levels, BT have seen an unprecedented number of exchanges triggering. Six
BT have this morning announced that they are to scrap the preregistration scheme and replace it with a pre-ordering system.
Some people have suggested that the preregistration scheme has begun running out of steam. It seems that BT have taken a similar view - “We would not be able to bring broadband to exchanges serving 99.6%
In the past few minutes BT have released additional RFS dates for exchanges in Northern Ireland.
Back in February, BT announced that they were in the closing stages of getting the contract for 100% broadband coverage in Northern Ireland. However, exchanges triggering in Northern Ireland have since found themselves out of normal RFS issuing process. Campaigners
In the last few minutes the beginnings of a schedule for the Blueyonder speed boost has emerged.
Area
Date
Edinburgh
4th May
London
5th May
All other areas
To follow
The changes will take up to 24 hours to take effect apparently.
We will post further scheduling information as and when we receive it.
Hot on the heels of this mornings announcement by Telewest that it is adding 50% free downstream bandwidth to it’s Blueyonder services, NTL is also giving away extra bandwidth for free.
The following table shows the changes:
Old Speed
New Speed
Price per month
150Kbps
300Kbps
£17.99
600Kbps
750Kbps
£24.99
1Mbps
1.5Mbps
£37.99
Please note that the 1Mbps product has recently been increased in price from £34.99, which is
Some interesting videos produced by BT Retail have found their way on to the internet. These are very much marketting videos, so don’t expect a great deal of technical content. However, the flexible bandwidth one is interesting - particularly the way the user was able to boost their bandwidth mid-download. Whether this is actually makes
Fresh off the news press, Blueyonder are to give 50% extra bandwidth to all customers for nothing extra. It seems they are wishing to lead the way against BT’s ADSL offerings when only a few weeks ago BT announced the Home 2000 trial.
The Blueyonder services will be re-graded as below:
Old Speed
New Speed
Price per month
512Kbps
768Kbps
£27.99
1Mbps
1.5Mbps
£37.99
2Mbps
3Mbps
£52.99
(All prices
A case of divine intervention from BT’s Head of Broadband Service and Network Platform has resulted in the release of the RFS dates due last Thursday. These 80 dates are as follows:
Abercrave 18/08/2004Barrow On Humber 18/08/2004Bickington 18/08/2004Bishopsworth 18/08/2004Bottesford 18/08/2004Box 18/08/2004Bridestowe 18/08/2004Burton Joyce 18/08/2004Buxton 18/08/2004Cawood 18/08/2004Chalfont Drive 18/08/2004Chittlehamholt 18/08/2004Clare 18/08/2004Clifford 18/08/2004Cottered 18/08/2004Crathes 18/08/2004Cuminestown 18/08/2004Cwrtnewydd 18/08/2004Drumnadrochit 18/08/2004Epworth
Unfortunately this weeks RFS dates have been delayed, and although they were due to appear this afternoon, as of 6pm they have yet to make an appearance.
As soon as I see them I’ll get them up on the site and send out the mailing list.
Update (9am Sat 24th): BT have apologised to campaigners and have
Following the recent postponement of Rhu’s RFS date the day before it was due to be enabled, a further four exchanges have had their dates moved back:
Exchange
Old date
New date
Reason
Abbots Bromley
21/04/2004
25/08/2004
New CJ cable required
Glenfarg
21/04/2004
26/05/2004
Delay to SDH ring provision
Kimbolton
02/06/2004
29/09/2004
New CJ cable and duct required
Stelling Minnis
02/06/2004
22/12/2004
Cable delay, will not be ready until December
Given BT’s good track record with
BT Wholesale have this morning announced that they will be trialling broadband above and beyond the current 60dB signal attenuation limit (approximately 6km line length). The trial, being conducted with the Milton Keynes Broadband Action Group, will involve 1,000 end users on a first-come first-served based in Milton Keynes (01908 dialling code). Some 18% of
The ADSL availability checker on BT.com/broadband has been recently updated to a new version.
Version 7, which some have noticed has already been in operation for a couple of months, has one feature that people familiar with the system are bound to notice. A code, known as the “BT_ADSL_CODE”, which was hidden away in the HTML
Hot on the heels of an announcement by BT Wholesale to service providers on Wednesday, both UK-Bug and ADSLGuide are dishing the dirt on BT’s new capacity charging system. UK-Bug goes on to mention two new IPStream based products as well. ADSLGuide also discusses a usage based charging system, although it now appears that this
Following numerous requests for “prettier” exchange graphs, I’ve finally caved in and made an attempt at it.
Standard graphs
http://www.samknows.com/broadband/graphs/exch/line/months/small/MYDLT/blue
http://www.samknows.com/broadband/graphs/exch/line/months/small/MYDLT/green
Linear graphs
http://www.samknows.com/broadband/linear-graph.php?ecode=WWNCYR&skin=blue
http://www.samknows.com/broadband/linear-graph.php?ecode=WWNCYR&skin=green
The only two colour schemes are blue and green at the moment. If you have any suggestions for them, I’ll happily consider them. They only take a second to add if need be.
These new graphs
This weeks batch of 58 new RFS dates have just touched down. The list is as follows:
Draperstown 29/04/2004Kilkeel 29/04/2004Bushmills 29/04/2004Newtownstewart 29/04/2004Lisnaskea 06/05/2004Cushendall 06/05/2004Bindon Abbey 11/08/2004Keith 11/08/2004Alford Grampion 11/08/2004Misterton 11/08/2004Coupar Angus 11/08/2004East Dean 11/08/2004Guilsborough 11/08/2004Fossoway 11/08/2004Fundenhall 11/08/2004Dunecht 11/08/2004East Langton 11/08/2004Pontesbury 18/08/2004Much Hadham 18/08/2004Shalford Green 18/08/2004Llangefni 18/08/2004James Bridge 18/08/2004Rangeworthy 18/08/2004Gardenstown 18/08/2004Widegates 18/08/2004Newborough 18/08/2004Woodton 18/08/2004Southrop 18/08/2004Winsham 22/09/2004
Waterhayes Farm
I’ve implemented a few addtions and changes to the site in the past few days.
Firstly, I’ve reclassified exchanges with provisional RFS dates from “Waiting for RFS date” to “With RFS date”. This is because nearly 25% of all RFS dates are now provisional, so it made sense to treat them similarly now. The modified ADSL
Following the release of 188 new RFS dates yesterday, many people have been wondering why so many exchanges have such long lead times. Well, I asked BT about the two exchanges that have received the most interest - Fenwick and Colinsborough - both of which have RFS dates will into 2006.
Both of these exchanges require