Category: Wholesale

As part of the annual intake of apprentices at BT, Openreach is to get 400 new bodies in the New Year.

According to the new switchedonuk.org website we can expect to see next generation broadband services in January 2008.

This week BT announced its plans to invest over £1 billion over the next five years bringing 21CN technology to Scottish exchanges. This will enable the new generation of voice, data, video and broadband services. According to BT it will begin in the major cities of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Inverness, Stirling, Perth and Paisley as well as towns including Dunfermline, Falkirk, Musselburgh and Newton Mearns. The process will start in just over a year in these key locations.

In what is a turbulent market with wide variations in levels of customer service, Vodafone is to dip its toes into the world of ADSL.

The BT 21CN is often criticised, but it does offer the potential for BT to eventually take the local loop into the 21st Century rather than still looking almost 19th Century.

BT has released a timetable outlining which parts of the country will have a 30 minute outage during some engineering work in the evenings.

Openreach is removing its previous £1000 cost limit to remove line sharing devices from lines that are to be used for broadband, be it an LLU line or BT Wholesale service.

While nothing has been announced, it seems the noises coming out of BT are becoming more confident and numerous that we will see improvements on the speeds of broadband access across the country.

Last week, we ran a poll asking users about their experience of the "up to 8 Mbps" services.

The number of local loop unbundled connections in the UK is rising fast. In January 210,000 lines were unbundled and this figure has now reached 580,000 breaking the half-a-million mark.