Category: Wholesale

BT Chairman Sir Christopher Bland has been talking to the Financial Times about the roll-out of fibre closer to the home.

Inuk, a UK IPTV company, has signed a deal with Cable & Wireless that will see its triple-play service available to 63% of the UK population.

BT Wholesale has issued a 'matters beyond our reasonable control' notice to broadband providers.

BT Wholesale have announced a promotion which will take effect from July through September offering free service provider to service provider migration including changes between a number of services. This promotion is for service providers and does not directly affect end user pricing.

BT Wholesale is set to introduce some extra IP Profiles for its IPstream Max and Max Premium products. This should make changes in line sync speed less painful for people with a fluctuating line.

The news that the cessation charge was to be dropped is tempered by today's news that this is only for a month, and a new charge may appear, though is expected to be a lot lower. BT Wholesale have announced they will pass on the saving to the service providers using their services.

Openreach, the part of BT Group which manages the connection from the local exchange to end user premises (homes & businesses) has announced today that as of tomorrow it will be dropping the cease charges to zero. We ought to stress this does not affect end users at this time and that this charge suspension at this point appears to be temporary.

Matt Beal (CTO, BT Wholesale) has said that the BT 21CN upgrades will put enough bandwidth into exchanges that there will be no need for traffic shaping.

The last time copper prices soared aluminium appeared in the local loop, but it looks like Openreach may be getting ready to use fibre for areas where the local loop is to be built from scratch.

The cost of a BT engineer finding out the ADSL problem is with the wiring in your property and not down to BT is set to increase from £50+vat to £144+vat.