Category: Wholesale

Service providers have recently had a briefing on the results of the Milton Keynes extended reach trial and the results are good.

In a move that was a shock to most service providers, BT have announced they are increasing prices of their BT IPStream Office (and the older BT IPStream S) products. Although most users won't be affected by these as they are not commonly used at home, this move is a very surprising one and hits those who have upgraded to faster 2Mbps services based on the IPStream product very hard, especially considering of the lack of an IPStream Home 2000 service.

16 service providers have signed up to a voluntary code of practice for the new migration scheme.

As of today the migration between the various BT IPStream service providers should become easier with the launch of the MAC migration process.

BT has issued its first quarters results, which show that the BT Wholesale ADSL market has 2.7 million connections and a turnover of £186 million.

BT Wholesale has released details of four exchanges where the RFS date has had to be delayed.

BT Wholesale is cutting the activation fee on the SDSL services from £450 to £225 for a limited time.

BT Wholesale is running a limited internal trial looking at the possibility of a pay-per-minute broadband service.

This morning, BT announced plans to double the number of exchanges on which SDSL services can be ordered from 150 to 300 exchanges. This move both enlarges the existing areas of SDSL availability and moves into new areas from Exeter, Cardiff, the M3/M4 corridor, Cheshire, North East England and Aberdeen.

This morning, BT has announced the ready-for-service dates for over a thousand exchanges around the UK to give users a date when they should be able to place ADSL orders on their exchange. This was following a previous statement by BT that it will be rolling out broadband at each exchange so that 99.6% of UK households will be connected to a broadband enabled exchange by August 2005.