Broadband News

News, views and analysis

Address based checking now supported on the wholesale checker

30 Dec 2007 | 18.39 Europe/London
Our wholesale broadband checker now supports address based checking.

New mapping engine goes live

26 Dec 2007 | 15.17 Europe/London
This boxing day sees the release of a much needed new mapping engine on the site. The new system offers a whole host of new features that many of you will hopefully find useful.

ISP unrest over 21CN plans

28 Oct 2007 | 15.17 Europe/London
The latest Broadband Working Group

Entanet launches LLU business services

25 Oct 2007 | 15.19 Europe/London
Entanet have this afternoon announced that they will be unbundling two exchanges over the next 6 weeks in order to provide uncontended "ethernet first mile" solutions.

Simplifydigital launches new digital advice service

23 Oct 2007 | 00.01 Europe/London
Yesterday saw the launch of Simplifydigital, a new digital services advice company.

Coverage data from Onlincolnshire incorporated

21 Oct 2007 | 20.23 Europe/London
Onlincolnshire is the product of a partnership between Lincolnshire Council and BT. Their wireless products cover much of Lincolnshire and offer up to 2Mbps symmetric speeds.

NewNet LLU progress update

17 Oct 2007 | 23.24 Europe/London
NewNet have today provided us with an updated roll-out plan of their 24Mbps ADSL2+ LLU services. Back in July we noted with interest that they were looking to expand out of the Portsmouth area; this updated plan is the first indication that this is moving forward.

Entanet announce their 21CN trial to resellers

16 Oct 2007 | 22.53 Europe/London
Entanet are to begin trialling their 21CN product set on a series of exchanges in the Birmingham area.

O2 broadband goes live

16 Oct 2007 | 22.34 Europe/London
Mobile operator O2 yesterday caught up with the rest of the mobile crowd and launched their broadband offerings.

Assorted updates regarding Scotland, Edge Telecom and wireless ISPs

03 Oct 2007 | 23.39 Europe/London
Firstly, apologies for the lack of visible updates as of late. I've recently started a new job and have been working horrifically long hours! Rest assured that ISP data is still being updated in the background, so your exchange pages should be right up to date.

Additional Scottish exchange upgrades

16 Sep 2007 | 15.11 Europe/London
Last month we reported that eighteen exchanges in Scotland were being upgraded, either by having full ADSL installed or by having additional "Exchange Activate" capacity added.

New exchange online in Swindon

16 Sep 2007 | 14.44 Europe/London
The brand new Haydon Wick exchange finally came online this week after repeated delays.

Updated 21CN trial pricing

14 Aug 2007 | 14.58 Europe/London
BT Wholesale's Consult21 team have published indicative trial pricing for the Real Time QoS option for the new Wholesale Broadband Connect product.

Eighteen Scottish Exchange Activate exchanges to be upgraded

14 Aug 2007 | 14.29 Europe/London
The Scottish Executive has identified 18 exchanges that are suffering capacity issues and will be upgrading these between now and February 2008.

21CN crash course

10 Aug 2007 | 15.42 Europe/London
Have you heard about 21CN but are not really sure what it's all about? If so, you're not alone.

A few website changes

05 Aug 2007 | 22.57 Europe/London
As you may have already noticed, the website has undergone a makeover. The old look had been there for four years now, so we decided to have a bit of a change.

NewNet ADSL2+ LLU coverage

24 Jul 2007 | 22.58 Europe/London
The nice folks at NewNet have recently provided me with the roll-out data for their new 24Mbps ADSL2+ LLU products.

Smallworld Media data incorporated in to the site

14 Jul 2007 | 23.03 Europe/London
Coverage data for Smallworld Media has now been fully incorporated in to the website.

Availability checker changes

18 Jun 2007 | 23.13 Europe/London
Two changes have been made to the availability checker today. Firstly, AOL LLU data has now been fully incorporated in to the checker (and the rest of the site).

AOL launches new pricing based upon LLU availability

22 May 2007 | 11.21 Europe/London
AOL UK have today launched new pricing for their broadband services. The new pricing raises the cost of AOL broadband on non-LLU exchanges, and keeps the cost the same for AOL unbundled exchanges.

Virgin Media unveil cable broadband caps

06 May 2007 | 22.40 Europe/London
Virgin Media have unveiled their traffic shaping policy (read: usage limits) for their cable broadband services after trials in the North West.

Carphone Warehouse rollout update

06 May 2007 | 22.36 Europe/London
Carphone's targeted rollout of 1,000 exchanges just over a year ago has already been surpassed. No less than

Some LLU updates

06 Mar 2007 | 10.32 Europe/London
If 2006 truly was the "year of LLU", then it appears that someone forgot to tell Be* (O2), Easynet (Sky) and Carphone Warehouse (TalkTalk) that we're now in 2007.