01:16 pm - May 31st, 2006 by Sam
It has been advertised for a couple of weeks now and common knowledge for even longer, but today it’s official - Wanadoo are to rebrand to Orange as of tomorrow.
In conjunction with this announcement, they have also launched their ‘free’ broadband service as well. As expected, this requires you to have a £30+ per month
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03:28 pm - May 30th, 2006 by Sam
Vodafone has today been discussing the companies future strategy with analysts following this mornings announcement of a £14.9bn loss. According to Reuters, the worlds largest mobile operator is considering unbundling exchanges in order to provide broadband services. This has added credence to earlier rumours that Vodafone was looking at acquiring an existing LLU operator, such
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08:41 pm - May 29th, 2006 by Sam
As many of you have noticed already, we have added email notifications and RSS feeds for exchange updates. Therefore as soon as we notice that the status of your exchange has changed (e.g. an LLU provider has unbundled it or moved a date), then you will be notified. Keep in mind that we do not
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05:15 pm - May 16th, 2006 by Sam
Be, Bulldog, Easynet, Wanadoo and even HomeChoice have all been busy unbundling exchanges recently. There’s too many exchanges to list here so, I’ll just give a brief summary for each provider and refer you to the relevant provider page where you can see the full lists (ordered by enablement date).
Be Unlimited have been continuing their
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06:44 pm - May 9th, 2006 by Sam
If you haven’t noticed, the map section has been updated. With so much press about LLU and the current state of broadband it is sometimes hard to remember how rapidly the face of broadband in the UK has changed. From 1999 till the present day the change in the amount of exchanges enabled for ADSL
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01:15 am - May 9th, 2006 by Sam
Just under a year ago, Cable and Wireless announced their year-end results for March 2005. Within this they stated that they planned to have 600 exchanges unbundled by Bulldog by March 2006, and 800 by late autumn 2006. Anyone familiar with the figures though will know that Bulldog have remained static at around 410 exchanges
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03:08 pm - May 1st, 2006 by Sam
Easynet announced some time ago that they would be rolling out their LLU service to 750 exchanges by the end of the year. Well, after being idle at 232 exchanges for over a year, it now seems that they’ve begun the next stage of their rollout. Five London exchanges - Stamford Hill, Streatham, Kneller Hall,
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