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Samknows.com gets a face lift

08:18 pm - May 26th, 2008 by Sam

Yes, it’s finally happened - we’ve had a face lift. I’ve frequently received comments on the design, but the final nail in the coffin was when someone answered the survey and said that the style was “just too geeky”!
Seriously though, we’re just trying to make the website a bit more usable, particularly for new users.

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BT Wholesale publishes indicative Fibre To The Premises pricing

03:12 pm - May 24th, 2008 by Sam

BT Wholsale’s launch of FTTP (Fibre to the Premises) at the new Ebbsfleet valley housing development kicks off this Autumn. Whilst a rough product line-up has been in the public domain for some time, this is the first time we’ve seen any pricing information from them.
The following table summarises both the products and prices on

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Ofcom announces deregulation for 70% of the UK broadband market

09:44 pm - May 21st, 2008 by Sam

Ofcom has today announced that it will deregulate 70% of the UK’s broadband market. The news was widely expected following the European Union green-lighting the process in February of this year.
The changes will see pricing restrictions placed upon BT Wholesale being removed in 1197 of the 5592 exchange areas. These “Market 3″ exchanges are those

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The capacity challenge facing BT Openreach

08:16 pm - May 20th, 2008 by Sam

The growth of local loop unbundling (LLU) in the past 18 months has undoubtedly been explosive. In the last quarter alone there were over 600,000 LLU connections provisioned. But all of this growth is taking its toll on the physical capacity of the exchanges themselves. Indeed, many exchanges in London now have nearly ten separate

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Performance Monitoring Network deployment update

09:16 pm - May 19th, 2008 by Sam

This is just a brief update to say that we’ve sent out the final confirmation email to the first 200 users of the Performance Monitoring Network. We plan to start shipping the units within the next week.
We’ve had such a big response to the project that we could only fulfill a fraction of the requests

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Announcing the Samknows performance monitoring network - Volunteers wanted!

03:16 pm - May 6th, 2008 by Sam

I’ve long been frustrated by the confusion surrounding broadband performance, and it seems I’m not alone. Ofcom is currently working with ISPs to formulate a Code of Practice that will provide consumers with more information at the point of sale on their likely broadband speed. But is it really right for us to expect a

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A brief summary of our survey results

01:29 pm - May 2nd, 2008 by Sam

Firstly I’d like to say a big thank you to everyone who answered the survey we put up on the site in February. The response has been far better than expected and I can only apologise that I can’t respond to everyone individually.
I thought I’d share some of the most pronounced results below:
1. Predictably, the

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