Not only has BT Retail declared itself the first UK Internet Service Provider to reach the five million customer milestone, it’s also revealed it’s ahead of schedule when it comes to installing its next-generation broadband network

BT is to supply an up to 10Gb network to the MediaCity UK development at Salford Quays which will host the BBC’s new offices, as well as the University of Salford and Northwest Vision and Media.
BT claims this will make the new media cluster as well connected as similar media hubs in Dubai and Singapore. [...]

BT reiterated its intention to roll out behavioural targeting technology from Phorm at its AGM this week as protesters outside the event admitted they were disappointed with the turn out of privacy campaigners.
However, there are three developments which will mean the furore over Phorm will not go away any time soon.
Mid week, and coinciding with [...]

BT have caused a bit of a stir this week by mailing a personalised letter to current or former Tiscali group broadband customers (these include Pipex, Freedom2Surf and Nildram). A photograph of one of the letters is available here, having been discussed in various forums earlier this week.
The letter points out the attempts by Tiscali [...]

BT’s Home IT support service has added a new service to improve broadband speeds – the Broadband Accelerator.
The service, available here, is available only to those who take both a phone line and broadband from BT Retail (i.e. have BT Total Broadband).
For £90 an engineer will visit and spend up to one hour working to [...]

The latest Broadband Working Group slides from BT’s Consult21 seem to demonstrate growing unease amongst the ISPs over BT Wholesale’s 21CN plans.
In the minutes of the 26th September meeting representatives of Sky, Tiscali, Orange and even BT Retail all voiced their dissatisfaction over proposals to switch from a two step migration process (20CN IPStream to [...]

With 5 the LLU providers offering service and 2 others considering LLU as a viable way forward, London is getting a little crowded with providers.
The map here shows the number of providers per exchange.
Key.
Green – 3 Providers
Yellow – 2 Providers
Purple – 1 Provider
This shows LLU services only, not standard BT provided ADSL or SDSL.

NTL have today notified Milton Keynes Council and customers participating in their wireless trials stating that the wireless trials operating in the area are to be discontinued. The downbeat email to customers declared the service “commercially unviable” and informed them that the service will not be available after September 20th. 90 customers took part in [...]

Whilst the list of RFS dates is not yet available, the BT press release for it has just hit my inbox. It can be viewed here if you are interested.
On an unrelated note, price cuts by BT Retail for their broadband services were also confirmed in another press release. This followed much rumour and speculation [...]

LTT Broadband, the wireless provider covering areas in West Kent and East Sussex, have now launched their new 4Mbps symmetric broadband product. The pricing for the service, at £280 per month, is obviously targetted at business users. The contention ration for the service is not yet known, however, looking at other products form LTT, it’s [...]

BT have recently installed SDSL services in a further three exchanges in the UK, bringing the national total to 154 SDSL exchanges.
The three exchanges are Bilston, West Bromwich and Willenhall. All three are located in close proximity in the central midlands. A map detailing their locations can be seen here.
What makes Willenhall and Bilston particularly [...]

BT Retail received a lot of criticism last week when it announced its new “Broadband Basic” package for £19.99 per month, with a 1GB download limit attached. They even managed to annoy Tiscali with an advert about Tiscali’s 150K “broadband” services.
Not to be outdone though, Tiscali have announced that they too will be launching a [...]