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"Be" London Coverage

11 Oct 2005 | 14.46 Europe/London

Below is a list from "Be" of there latest coverage in London.

BERMONDSEY	CLERKENWELL	EUSTON
HOLBO	KINGS CROSS	SHOREDITCH
WALWORTH	ALBERT DOCK	BARKING
DAGENHAM	MUSWELL HILL	NORTH FINCHLEY
PALMERS GREEN	ROMFORD	STRATFORD
CATFORD	DEPTFORD	GREENWICH
PUTNEY	THAMESMEAD	TULSE HILL
WIMBLEDON	CHISWICK	EALING
HAMMERSMITH	PERIVALE	BAYSWATER
MAIDA VALE	PADDINGTON	PRIMROSE HILL
BATTERSEA	BRIXTON	CHELSEA
FULHAM	NINE ELMS	PARSONS GREEN
PIMLICO	SOUTH KENSINGTON	WEST KENSINGTON
WOOLWICH	POPLAR	STEPNEY GREEN

Exchange listing wish be updated shortly.

24 meg, for £24, 24 hours per day

26 Sep 2005 | 09.27 Europe/London

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.

More ISP's join the LLU bandwagon

08 Sep 2005 | 15.16 Europe/London

Quick snippet of news, it seems like the Wanadoo LLU trial in Leeds is going well, more information

'Be' breaks UK broadband speed record with an 18.5 Meg connection

02 Sep 2005 | 09.20 Europe/London

Be, the UK's newest broadband provider, broke the speed record yesterday when their first customer, Stefan, connected to the Internet in Clerkenwell with a download speed of 18.

UKOnline Release 24Meg

01 Sep 2005 | 13.13 Europe/London

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.

Be Unlimited open 24Meg trial

31 Aug 2005 | 12.22 Europe/London

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.

Firefox extension update

17 Aug 2005 | 20.01 Europe/London

A few people commented that they would prefer the extension to redirect to this website as opposed to a different website, so it has been updated to work with the availability checker script here, as well as a few other little bugs being ironed out.

New team member

16 Aug 2005 | 20.49 Europe/London

As many have already noticed, we have a new team member on board - Andy Dixon. Andy's got a solid background in the telecoms and computing industry and works with broadband related matters on a daily basis.

Samknows Firefox Extension

11 Aug 2005 | 20.32 Europe/London

There is now a Firefox extension available to anyone who uses samknows.com quite often.
The extension allows you to use the Broadband Availability checker on the fly, by just entering a telephone number, and clicking Go.

New BT charges

07 Aug 2005 | 21.33 Europe/London

From the 1st September 2005, BT Wholesale will be reducing the charges made for new ADSL provisions. Quite a few ISPs do not charge this, as they spread the cost over a 12-month period.

I'm still here... honest!

06 Jul 2005 | 23.32 Europe/London

After a very long and intense period of university coursework, exams and a move to London, I've finally had a chance to spend a bit of time on the website.

Lack of updates

12 Mar 2005 | 22.36 Europe/London

I feel I should apologise for the lack of updates to the site recently. Unfortunately, university work is very heavy right now and is showing few signs of easing up.

Further RFS date changes

26 Feb 2005 | 11.05 Europe/London

So much for a slowdown in RFS date changes! This week sees a whole new batch... sorry!

Exchange	Old RFS date	New RFS date

Two more RFS delays

15 Feb 2005 | 22.13 Europe/London

Two more exchanges have had their RFS dates pushed back. Fortunately the delays are relatively short this time.

Site downtime next weekend

04 Feb 2005 | 14.07 Europe/London

The server that this site is hosted on is being upgraded next Saturday (February 12th) between the hours of midnight and 6am.

BT's future broadband plans

03 Feb 2005 | 13.11 Europe/London

Not content with just announcing an additional 500 SDSL exchanges this week, BT Wholesale have today announced a sweeping range of new developments.

Futher 500 SDSL exchanges from BT

01 Feb 2005 | 09.05 Europe/London

BT Wholesale announced yesterday that they would be bringing SDSL to a further 500 exchanges across the UK over the next eight months.

RFS date changes

20 Jan 2005 | 23.24 Europe/London

A new batch of RFS date changes is upon us. Amongst all the bad news, Llanfair Caereinion has had its date moved forward 4 months.

How much competition do you want?

20 Jan 2005 | 19.58 Europe/London

With 5 the LLU providers offering service and 2 others considering LLU as a viable way forward, London is getting a little crowded with providers.

Bulldog produce further rollout

20 Jan 2005 | 08.05 Europe/London

Bulldog have rolled out to a further 8 exchanges this time 7 in London and the final area is Stevenage.

Bulldog offering 4Mbps outside of M25.

18 Jan 2005 | 08.30 Europe/London

Today we have been informed that Bulldog is offering LLU services outside of M25.
The 7 areas are listed below:
Hemel Hempstead, Herts
Leagrave, Luton
Luton, Luton
Hoddesdon, Herts
Bedford, Bedfordshire
Basildon, Essex
Boreham, Chelmsford

In addition they have enabled a further 11 exchanges within the M25 to bring the total to 78.

BT Launch IP Stream Home 2000

13 Jan 2005 | 23.48 Europe/London

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.