BT have issued notification of Wholesale price changes that will take effect on Dec 1st and Jan 1st 2009.
There are many changes, both up and down, some examples are :-
A 5% increase in the annual rental of a fixed speed end user IPStream connection to £8.01 per month (ex VAT, Wholesale) from 1/12/08.
A 4.1% decrease [...]

At the tail end of last week BT Wholesale published an update to it’s Wholesale Broadband Connect (WBC) rollout data. The update brings expected Ready For Service (RFS) dates for a further 1200 telephone exchanges nationwide.
WBC, as we discuss at length in our guide, is BT’s next generation wholesale product that is sold to ISPs. [...]

BT Wholesale’s recently launched WBC (Wholesale Broadband Connect) service has suffered a setback this week as 440 exchange activation dates have been delayed and a further 320 have been removed from the schedule all together.
The new wholesale service from BT offers ADSL2+ end user connections and will eventually be available nationwide. Despite being launched in [...]

The introduction of BT’s 21CN network and Wholesale Broadband Connect (WBC) has caused unexpected problems for some Entanet customers who have found their connection being migrated over to the new system.
It appears that Entanet have taken the opportunity at some WBC equipped exchanges to move IPStream customers onto the new infrastructure. About 4% of customers [...]

BT’s patent pending iPlate is becoming available to end users via Ebay (search for iPlate) and at least one ISP.
The iPlate is a slot-in “interstitial” filter that fits between the faceplate of a BT master socket (type NTE5) and the backplate that is screwed to the wall. It filters out potential interference from the bell [...]

South Derbyshire District Council have for some time now being raising questions about the standard of broadband provision in their district and challenging BT to address the problem.
Using our exchange checker we can see that three of the exchanges in the area (Swadlincote, Peartree and Mickleover) have a full set of LLU services so there [...]

Entanet’s retailers have become popular ISPs with broadband enthusiasts in part due to their well defined monthly download allowances and lack of complex traffic profiling systems. They have tended to poke fun at the “unlimited” providers from this position of clarity and openness which includes publishing the loads on their BT Central infrastructure.
This position may [...]

OFCOM have tweaked the process for handling the situation where a customer finds they cannot order broadband due to a “tag on the line”. This usually arises when a service is already present on a phone line that prevents an ISP ordering ADSL from BT Wholesale, or prevents a LLU operator gaining access to the [...]

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 [...]

Keen followers of BT’s 21CN project will know that today is the day that Wholesale Broadband Connect launches. The new service from BT Wholesale aims to bring their range of ADSL products up to speed with the LLU services of their competitors. It also introduces a range of QoS (Quality of Service) options that could [...]

BT Wholesale have at last released the schedule for the first 868 exchanges to be activated for Wholesale Broadband Connect, their new 21CN broadband product. The new product will bring ADSL2+ nationwide, but may take until 2012 to reach the most remote areas of the UK.
At present we’re seeing 39 exchanges enabled for WBC already, [...]

BT Wholesale assembled journalists from a wide range of technology websites at it’s Gatwick offices yesterday as we begin the countdown to the launch of Wholesale Broadband Connect in six weeks. BT were keen to demonstrate the plethora of new techniques designed to help improve broadband throughput on the new 21CN-based wholesale product.
They began by [...]

BT Wholesale have announced indicative launch prices for their 21CN-based Wholesale Broadband Connect and IPStream Connect products to Consult21 members. These prices have changed considerably since the trial prices were released last Autumn.
End User Access pricing
As with the launch of ADSL Max, BT Wholesale will again be offering free migration from IPStream/DataStream to WBC, providing [...]

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 [...]

BT Wholesale’s Consult21 team have published indicative trial pricing for the Real Time QoS option for the new Wholesale Broadband Connect product. As with the pricing for Assured Sessions (the other QoS option), there is a massive difference between pricing between “Band 1 exchanges” and “Band 2 exchanges” (of which there are ~1016 and ~4500 [...]

The recent press around BT’s pending 21CN rollout has resulted in quite a lot of interest in the subject. One of the most common requests we’ve had in the past week is for a map of the planned rollout…. So here it is!
The following map depicts the planned rollout, with the nearest dates shaded green [...]

Since BT first announced their 21st Century Network (21CN) over two years ago, many people have been wondering when it is coming and how it will affect them. Well, now that trials are near completion, BT and Ofcom have launched a website designed to provide exactly this information to interested parties.
Switched-on contains information about [...]

Hats off to BT – All but one of the 5277 exchanges they planned to upgrade to ADSL Max by today were completed successfully. This includes all of the “Green”, “Amber” and even the “Red” classified exchanges. The single unlucky exchange was Sheffield. We do not yet know when this will go live.
It is worth [...]

It’s easy to see that ADSL Max has got everyone rather excited at the moment. Forum posts on the subject are seemingly endless in number and the bt.com/broadband website seemed to slow a crawl at midnight as the nations most eager broadband users simultaneously clicked “Go” on the availability checker.
However, a note of caution. ADSL [...]

Andrew Davies, Minister for Economic Development and Transport, has today announced that BT have been awarded the contract to supply broadband to the remaining 35 unviable exchanges in Wales. Work will commence immediately, with the first RFS date due at the end of June. 32 RFS dates were released in total, which can be found [...]