Category: Wholesale

BT Wholesale is running an End User Speed Upgrade programme, whereby ISPs can regrade whole blocks of their userbase in one go, for a reduced fee of £5 per line.

BT Group has published its latest Third Quarter results, which tell us that a new broadband DSL connection was been made every 10 seconds.

BT Wholesale has announced details of some fairly major DSL based trials for 2005. These will see ADSL running at up to 8Mbps, and ADSL2+ trialled which will offer up to 18Mbps downstream speeds.

BT has announced the next 500 exchanges which will be upgraded for symmetric SDSL services. At the end of last year, it said it was intending on rolling our SDSL to 1,000 new exchanged by the end of March 2006 with the first half of these being upgraded from April 2005.

Four exchanges in the Northamptonshire Partnership area have had RFS dates released.

Bulldog is now offering LLU services in 7 exchanges that are at last outside the M25.

BT Wholesale has announced that it is happy with the BT IPStream Home 2000 trial, and the product will fully launch on 10th February 2005.

BT Wholesale has notified ISPs it is upgrading its network infrastructure including moving IPstream users to larger ATM Virtual Paths to support faster speeds in the future. This move will affect every user of the service with loss of service expected for between 2 and 30 seconds. At the same time, BT is offering ISPs the option to upgrade the speeds of each IPstream connections at 250Kbps, 500Kbps and 1Mbps to 2Mbps or if this is unsuitable for the line, the highest possible rate.

In the past couple of days, 18 exchanges have a new RFS date of which some are improvements, but others are delays. Exchanges with new dates according to SamKnows are Llansteffan, Auchnagatt, Tarporley, Greenlaw, Bodfari, Northleach, Llangoed, Duns, Ridgeway Cross, Montgomery, Kilkhampton, Nicholforest, Barbon, Borrowdale, Satterwaite, Copdock, Ramsey, Tackley.

BT Wholesale has announced this week it has exceeded four million broadband connections with a customer being connected on average every 10 seconds. A quarter of these connections have taken place in the last four months with 8,500 new connections being installed each day of the week.