Category: Wholesale

BT will offer an 80meg fibre-to-the-cabinet broadband solution with 20meg upstream in the 'near future'.

BT have recruited 92 new apprentices to help boost their engineering team in London

BT Wholesale are to withdraw IPStream and DataStream products with a plan to have these replaced by 21CN services by Spring 2014.

Openreach have announced a further 66 exchanges which will be enabled for fibre based broadband in the next phase of their roll-out.

Engineers taking up to two days to install fibre-to-the-premises broadband during trials has caused delays to BT's rollout of the new products.

Openreach are to hire around 200 ex-armed forces personnel to help them install fibre based broadband.

Fujitsu, Virgin Media, TalkTalk and Cisco will join forces to create an open wholesale network to provide next-generation broadband services to rural areas predominantly using fibre to the home.

With fibre often stealing the limelight it's good to hear that BT wholesale are still progressing their 21CN network roll-out which will benefit many people who are not set to see FTTC or FTTH broadband for years to come.

BT Wholesale equipment problems sees approx. 9,000 users disconnected for hours overnight.

Broadband campaigners in Ewhurt and Surrey Hills are angry at what appears to be a change to a funding decision by SEEDA to help enable the area for high speed broadband. At present, many residents get sub-2Mbps speeds, with long lines in Surrey Hills being worst affected.