Category: Wholesale

BT Wholesale has released a large number of Ready For Service dates on Christmas Eve. The dates range from 10th March 2004 to 28th April 2004.

The last week saw no release of Ready for Service dates by BT Wholesale. BT has said that they plan to release a batch before Christmas 2003.

Exchange Activate, BT's programme to broadband enable exchanges with the support of Regional Development Agencies (RDA) received a boost with BT's announcement of a cost reduction.

BT Wholesale's launch of the Home1000 service was welcomed by users and providers alike offering an IPStream solution to home users with faster connections than previously available. However, recently a number of users on certain exchanges have been experiencing speed degradation on the faster services.

Fujitsu have announced a new product which will see the increasing transition of the PSTN network into Voice over IP. The GeoStream Integrated Voice and Data ADSL Line Card (IV-LCSS) allows telephone companies such as BT to connect the local loop of a telephone line into one device which integrates many functions currently available on separate cards. It includes a splitter which separates the analogue voice signal from the DSL signal, a VoIP module that converts the analogue signal into data and an ADSL line card with a single uplink into the core network to carry both voice and data traffic.

BT has announced that it is to evaluate two long reach broadband evaluations in Milton Keynes starting in mid January 2004.

BT Wholesale has announced half price activation fees for its DataStream Office 500/1000/2000 products. Additionally the regrade fee for users upgrading to faster connections is dropping from £35 to £25 on a range of products.

BT has released a further 26 Ready for Service dates for exchanges, and a further 17 exchanges are to enabled via Partnership activity.

BT's facility in Reading has suffered a power outage which resulted in significant numbers of BT's IPStream ADSL users being disconnected.

Pipemedia and Easynet, two companies unbundling the local loop have recently enabled exchanges for broadband in a move that is quite unprecedented by beating BT to enabling the exchange. Byfield, Middleton Cheney, Market Bosworth and Dimsdale are now able to receive broadband services a result of the efforts of these two companies.