Both Easynet and Bulldog have increased their number of unbundled exchanges recently. Easynet now have 182 exchanges and Bulldog have 38 exchanges (Yes, we only list 37 at present - will remedy that ASAP).
It was only 2 weeks ago when we reported that Easynet had increased coverage to 158 exchanges. It seems that they really
Standon Rock in Staffordshire has become the latest exchange to have it’s RFS date delayed.
The exchange was due to go live on June 2nd (Wednesday), but a blockage in some of the ducting has delayed the fibre-optic cable installation. A team of engineers is assessing the problem this weekend. The new RFS date will not
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
Telewest Broadband, whose Blueyonder service provides some 498,000 users with broadband access, have now supplied us with complete coverage data for their services.
The new data provides an accurate representation of not only areas in which Telewest’s services are available, but also which ones have Blueyonder available (their broadband service). The availability checker has been updated
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
BT have this evening released a further 9 RFS dates, as well as 18 of improved dates. The 9 new RFS dates are as follows:
Annbank 31/08/2005
Carradale 31/08/2005
Carron 31/08/2005
Dunure 31/08/2005
Kiltarlity 31/08/2005
Lockerbie 31/08/2005
Bow 31/08/2005
Stow 31/08/2005
St Mawes 27/07/2005
The 18 improved RFS dates are as follows:
Portscatho 28/07/2004
Boat Of Garten 31/08/2005
Killin 31/08/2005
Kilmun 31/08/2005
Kippen 31/08/2005
Letham (Angus) 31/08/2005
Muckhart 31/08/2005
Muthill 31/08/2005
Oxton 31/08/2005
Portmahomack 31/08/2005
Portree
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
The residents of Athelstaneford (East Lothian, Scotland) were expecting to be able to receive broadband ADSL shortly after their RFS date of June 2nd . However, a revised date of 22nd September 2004 was released on to FastPRoBE yesterday evening. This has now been confirmed as the new date.
According to one source, BT cite the
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
Following the issues from last week, I am now using an alternative source for my new exchange capacity data.
The new data shows the overall exchange status, any virtual path upgrades due, the number of DSLAMS (both ADSL and SDSL!) and the next DSLAM install date. It is also worth pointing out that this data also
Every exchange in Northern Ireland is now either enabled or has a RFS date. This is a result of Northern Ireland partnership agreement for 100% broadband coverage, as revealed back in February.
There is quite a large spread here, with some being less than 8 weeks away, and others in February 2005. Please click here to
Following the news that BT will be excluding those with ISDN and Home Highway from the Milton Keynes trial, the Milton Keynes Broadband Action Group has released the results of another Q&A session with BT. According to Nick Hubbard, co-ordinator of the group, 47 ISDN users have expressed their unhappiness over the ISDN situation so
BT have recently installed SDSL services in a further three exchanges in the UK, bringing the national total to 154 SDSL exchanges.
The three exchanges are Bilston, West Bromwich and Willenhall. All three are located in close proximity in the central midlands. A map detailing their locations can be seen here.
What makes Willenhall and Bilston particularly
Just when you thought you couldn’t possibly fit any more LLU news into one week, Easynet goes and unbundles another set of exchanges!
Until very recently Easynet have been operating with 149 unbundled telephone exchanges. Unfortunately we had only been able to locate 138 of these. Early this morning we attempted to determine the 11 we
The Register is reporting that HomeChoice, the LLU provider who offer digital TV and broadband internet over a DSL line, is to further expand its coverage.
The service, which already covers 78 exchanges in London, has attracted much media attention since it was launched back in March. They now plan to “immediately bring forward the further
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
Long-time readers of this site will know that I strive to bring the best possible data to the site. This does of course include making sure that the presented data is accurate.
Earlier this week I introduced a new set of data to the website - the exchange capacity data. This data was supplied by NDO.
BT have just released a fresh batch of 24 RFS dates. We were expecting all 60 today, although these have not yet materialised.
Todays list (so far!) is as follows:
Charlton Mackrell 08/12/2004
Eyke 08/12/2004
Fulstow 08/12/2004
Portscatho 08/12/2004
Talgarth 08/12/2004
Falfield 02/03/2005
Framfield 02/03/2005
Twinstead 02/03/2005
Bowmore 27/07/2005
Brodick 27/07/2005
Catterline 27/07/2005
Crosswell 27/07/2005
Forth 27/07/2005
Holbeton 27/07/2005
Kinlochbervie 27/07/2005
Kinlochleven 27/07/2005
Llanfair Caereinion 27/07/2005
Patna 27/07/2005
Port Ellen 27/07/2005
Rothesay 27/07/2005
Strachur 27/07/2005
Tighnabruaich 27/07/2005
Whiting Bay
BT Wholesale have just released a further 28 RFS dates. The remaining exchanges which have either triggered or were included in the list of 42 above 90%, will have their RFS dates released tomorrow. Todays list of 28 is as follows:
Newburgh (Fife) 15/09/2004
Slamannan 10/11/2004
Bainbridge 08/12/2004
Cutnall Green 08/12/2004
Eardiston 08/12/2004
Masham 15/12/2004
St Keverne 15/12/2004
Aultbea 22/12/2004
Earl Soham 05/01/2005
Dalmally 26/01/2005
Buchlyvie
Long-time readers of the site will know that I have been trying to get coverage data from the two cable broadband providers in the UK (NTL and Telewest for those who don’t know!) for some time now.
I’m pleased to say that talks with NTL concluded successfully this morning, and we now have coverage data for