BT have pushed forward the ADSL Max enablement dates of 22 exchanges. These exchanges will be immediately included in the current high speed trials which are taking place right now with participating ISP’s. All of the following exchanges were enabled for ADSL Max on the 15th February, unless otherwise stated:
Abinger, Airth, Appin, Ascot (Enabled 20/02/2006),
UK Villages Online, a popular website that provides local information about communities throughout the UK, has very kindly donated the samknows.co.uk domain name to us. This should remove the confusion that some users have experienced when trying to access the .co.uk variant of this site. A personal thanks goes out to Rupert at UKVillages for
Broadband uptake in Wales has grown by 14% in the last year according to research undertaken by the Welsh Assembly Governments Broadband Wales Programme. The survey, of 5,500 residents across the 22 Local Authorities, shows a phenomenal two in five (39%) Welsh residents now have broadband
In January 2005, Cardiff boasted the highest level of
As some of you have noticed already, I have added data pertaining to BT’s upcoming ADSL Max product, which offers up to 8Mbps downstream over your existing ADSL hardware. I’m currently listing 53 enabled exchange, 5247 with a RFS date and 151 with no planned roll-out date yet. Please keep in mind that the RFS
Fusion Media Networks have today announced their line of products built upon the IPStream Max product from BT Wholesale. On exchanges where ADSL Max is available, home users will be able to purchase 8Mbps broadband (with 448Kbps upstream) for £29.99 +VAT per month. Business users will be offered 8Mbps broadband with 832Kbps upstream for £54.99
Advantage West Midlands have awarded a contract to Avanti to install wireless base stations and provide satellite broadband access to 17 locations across the West Midlands. The goal is to achieve 100% broaband coverage across the region. Roll-out information is available on www.thepowerofbroadband.org.uk already, and a complete spreadsheet of postcodes and RFS dates can be
The maps section has been updated with a whole host of new and updated maps detailing broadband rollout across the UK. This update has been facilitated by a new backend mapping engine that was created by a new addition to the team, Ian. This allows us to create fully customised maps based upon live data
Be Unlimited have today announced that they will be rolling out their service to 156 exchanges by May 2006. Of this figure, 60 are already enabled in central London. Indeed, it is good to see that Be are progressing out of the capital with their rollout too.
A map depicting the 60 currently enabled exchanges and
I’ve added 148 Bulldog RFS to the LLU pages. See here for the full list. I’ll be providing a much needed update to the maps soon.
Incidentally, next week promises to be another interesting week for LLU. That said, the news will be nothing new to those who know where to look already!
I’ve updated the Bulldog data and added Be* and Wanadoo data to the site. The Be* and Wanadoo data is currently viewable only on the LLU pages. I’ll add that data to the individual exchange pages shortly (a major database change prohibits this at present).
More updates to follow soon.