Category: Wholesale

On Wednesday BT announced a reduction in its Local Loop Unbundled pricing which it claims will help stimulate competition in the market for new broadband services. The new terms which take effect from 15 December will include a reduction in the setup fee for a line from £168.38 to £99.95 (ex vat).

Broadband continues to grow in the UK, BT Wholesale has around 6.2 million broadband connections at the end of September 2005.

As usual when BT is running a trial open to service providers, a STIN document is produced, and this has now been released for the Max products.

More information has appeared on the forthcoming trials for the up to 8Mbps ADSL service from BT Wholesale.

Leamington Spa is one of the exchanges in the UK with a large number of lines provided over a TPON system. The latest news is that a copper conversion will be finished by the end of January 2006.

Using fibre is not a new way to provide Internet connections, but BT is trialling a new lightweight system that can be strung over exisiting infrastructure.

It may seem a lot slower than the 24Mbps emerging into the UK, but the BT 8Mbps products should be available to a lot more people one this next phase of trials is over.

It seems in addition to the pre-802.16 wireless service in Northern Ireland, BT is also testing kit from Navini in a number of rural and urban settings in the UK.

BT has announced one of the first services that will benefit from the roll-out of the 21CN initiative.

It seems BT has not forgotten those areas of the UK where ADSL cannot currently reach, and is to run trials looking at deploying DSLAMs in or next to the street cabinets.