Category: Wholesale

In perhaps what is one of the largest partnerships announcements to date between BT Wholesale and a regional development agency (ONE NorthEast). The two groups have announced a plan to bring ADSL to all BT exchanges in North East England.

BT Wholesale released the bare bones of a plan to offer a metered broadband solution to service providers. The metered solution will NOT replace the existing un-metered IPStream services, but be there to add choice for service providers.

BT Wholesale have announced its weekly batch of ready-for-service dates for exchanged under the demand tracking scheme.

An important milestone psychologically has been passed with the BT Wholesale roll-out of ADSL. The number of exchanges with ADSL, have an RFS date or have triggered (2770 exchanges) now exceeds the number gathering registrations (2754 exchanges.

BT released on Monday 12th January 2004 another approximately 50 RFS dates. This leaves around 180 exchanges triggered but still waiting.

BT Wholesale have announced 22 new RFS dates in conjunction with the Scottish Lowland partnership.

The roll-out of broadband across Milton Keynes is slowly progressing, and hopefully will provide a template that can be used for other areas of the UK with similar problems.

BT Wholesale is apparently holding back on the RFS dates for 27 exchanges as at present the dates would be around 5 months away, and they are looking for methods that may get the exchanges enabled earlier.

BT Wholesale has a total of 51 exchanges that actually triggered on or before 10th December 2003, that are still waiting for the announcement of their Ready For Service Dates.

Ten days ago, we reported of the demise of Independent Networks (IN) leaving hundreds of users of the LLU provider stranded just before Christmas. Pro-Net, one of the key suppliers to IN and ISP Eclipse Internet are seeking to help users left stranded by IN.