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. It is believed that AOL have currently unbundled around 390 exchanges, and plans to increase this number significantly over the next year.
Virgin Media have unveiled their traffic shaping policy (read: usage limits) for their cable broadband services after trials in the North West. Whilst the limits are generous (only being applied during the evening, and only throttling your speed for a few hours), they are sure to be unpopular in certain quarters. The Virgin Media forum
Carphone’s targeted rollout of 1,000 exchanges just over a year ago has already been surpassed. No less than 1,134 exchanges have been unbundled now. What’s potentially even more interesting is that they are targetting a further 500 exchanges by March 2008 (see page 36 of CPW’s annual strategy day PDF). Also of interest in the