BT have today announced that they have signed the remaining four contracts for suppliers for the 21st Century Network rollout. Rather unsurprisingly, Alcatel, Cisco, Ericsson and Fujitsu are the four additional prefered suppliers that now join the existing list of Ciena, Huawei, Lucent and Siemens.
BT’s 21CN plans involve moving the entire telecommunications network to an
BT have pushed forward the ADSL Max enablement dates of 22 exchanges. These exchanges will be immediately included in the current high speed trials which are taking place right now with participating ISP’s. All of the following exchanges were enabled for ADSL Max on the 15th February, unless otherwise stated:
Abinger, Airth, Appin, Ascot (Enabled 20/02/2006),
Fusion Media Networks have today announced their line of products built upon the IPStream Max product from BT Wholesale. On exchanges where ADSL Max is available, home users will be able to purchase 8Mbps broadband (with 448Kbps upstream) for £29.99 +VAT per month. Business users will be offered 8Mbps broadband with 832Kbps upstream for £54.99
From the 1st September 2005, BT Wholesale will be reducing the charges made for new ADSL provisions. Quite a few ISPs do not charge this, as they spread the cost over a 12-month period.
For ‘home’ (50:1 contention) and ‘office’ (20:1 contention) these have been reduced from £50 to £40. SDSL has been reduced from £260
Not content with just announcing an additional 500 SDSL exchanges this week, BT Wholesale have today announced a sweeping range of new developments.
First and foremost, BT have announced early plans to trial ADSL2+ at speeds of up to 18Mbps in the UK. There are sadly no further details of this trial yet, but further details
BT Wholesale announced yesterday that they would be bringing SDSL to a further 500 exchanges across the UK over the next eight months. This will take their symmetric coverage to 800 exchanges.
The full list of the new 500 is available here in CSV format. I will be updating the site with the new RFS dates
Following a successful three month trial, BT Wholesale have announced that the trial for IP Stream 2000 has completed and the product will be launched on the 10/02/2005.
Whilst many ISP’s have been offering 2Mbps connections for a reasonable price for some time now, these have been based upon Office 20:1 connections. This new product extends
BT Wholesale have announced a further four delayed RFS dates. These are as follows:
Exchange
Old RFS date
New RFS date
Llangadfan
19/01/2005
TBA
Moulton Chapel
12/01/2005
09/02/2005
Owersby Moor
19/01/2005
16/03/2005
Reston
19/01/2005
16/03/2005
Whilst I’m writing this, I feel I should apologise for the lack of updates to the site lately. I’m well aware that many of the maps need regenerating in particularl! Once the approaching exams are out
BT Wholesale have announced a further 76 SDSL RFS dates, meaning that by the end of March next year, there will be 300 BT SDSL enabled exchanges in the UK.
These 300 exchanges were announced long before the recent announcement of 1000 new SDSL exchanges, and is entirely seperate.
The full list can be found here.
BT today announced that they will rollout SDSL to a further 1000 exchanges
in two batches of 500. The first batch is due to be announced end of January 2005 the second batch by August 2005.
The BT press release can be found here.
Existing coverage of SDSL exchanges can be found here. There are currently 116 exchanges
BT Wholesale have announced six more SDSL ready for service dates. Cricklewood, Edinburgh Donaldson, Feltham, Southend, Stafford and Staines will all be able to receive BT Wholesale provided SDSL products by November 30th.
By the end of November, there will be 224 BT SDSL enabled exchanges nationwide. They aim to have the remaining 76 exchanges without
In the past few days we’ve heard rumours of NTL boosting their maximum broadband speed from 1.5Mbps to 3Mbps. Some have suggested that this brings them closer in line with Telwest, who have been offering 3Mbps BlueYonder services since this summer. These upgrades by NTL have apparently been made possible by wide-scale network improvements over
The Register is carrying the news that BT Wholesale have dropped their LLU prices again this year.
The latest announcement, which follows from the one in May, sees the connection charge to service providers fall from £83.33 to just £37.00. Further indications of just how seriously BT is now taking LLU can be seen in their
With BT’s busiest exchange-enabling month now behind us, we should see a decline in the number of delays occuring. However, this will be of little consolation for the residents of Abbots Bromley and Manaccan.
Manaccan, which originally had a RFS date of 1st September 2004, has now been issued a new date of 8th December 2004.
Abbots
BT Wholesale have this morning announced the official results of their extended reach trials, which are being conducted in Milton Keynes, Fort William and Dingwall in Scotland.
The new limits see the removal of the 60dB line loss limit on the 512Kbps product completely. All lines will now be tested for availability, no matter what the
BT Wholesale have today released pricing information for their new Home 250 product, which is to be launched on the 1st September 2004.
The notification to Ofcom confirms pricing details first revealed back in April.
The standard charging rate will be £12.25+VAT per month (that’s only 75 pence less than a Home 500 connection), whereas the capacity
Amendment (17:40): Since publishing this article I have spoken to BT Wholesale and they have asked me to reiterate the fact that none of this is yet confirmed. However, I have been told that an official announcement is due in the very near future.
Although the Milton Keynes trials are set to run until the end
BT Wholesale have this afternoon told service providers that the prices of the business products “IPStream Office” and “IPStream S” are to rise from the 1st September 2004.
The price rises affect the standard charging model only, and are as follows:
Product
Old price
New price
Increase
IPStream Office 500
£18.00
£20.41
13%
IPStream Office 1000
£28.00
£32.64
16%
IPStream Office 2000
£43.00
£57.00
33%
IPStream S 500
£23.00
£25.41
10%
IPStream S 1000
£33.00
£37.64
14%
IPStream S 2000
£48.00
£62.00
29%
These changes
BT Wholesale have today announced the next 150 exchanges to be enabled for their SDSL products.
SDSL is targetted at small businesses who need to be able to send data just as fast as they can receive it. This can be very useful for sending very large emails, voice over IP, and video conferencing.
This news has
BT have now released the complete list of 1045 RFS dates, and also a further 63 improved dates.
Click here to download the list of 1045 new RFS dates
Click here to download the list of 63 improved RFS dates
BT provided the following explanation for how the RFS dates were determined:
Quote from BT Wholesale spokesperson, 30th June