Category: Wholesale

The Torpoint exchange in Cornwall reached its trigger level of 500 registrations back in mid-July this year but users are still waiting a ready-for-service date. The delays have been the result of obtaining wayleave permission for the additional cabling required to enable the exchange.

This week has BT Wholesale announcing service dates for another 17 exchanges. This week also sees BT break the 2000 mark for the number of ADSL enabled exchanges, another 463 exchanges are in the build stage or waiting for their service date to be announced.

BT has announced a further fifty exchanges that will support SDSL services by the end of January 2004. The exchanges are located in the Greater London and West Midlands areas.

Twenty-one more RFS dates have been announced by BT. The list below does not include exchanges announced last week due to be ready for service on the same days as shown below.

BT Wholesale and Bulldog have announced their continuing strategic partnership in the provision of SDSL services in Central London exchanges. These symmetric services available at up to 2 Mbps will help businesses use upstream-intensive technologies such as VoIP and video conferencing more effectively.

Last week BT took the bold step of announcing that it expects to achieve 100% coverage of communities in the UK by 2005, although this did not necessarily mean every solution would be using ADSL services (and in fact one could ask whether this includes satellite which technically probably covers 100% of the UK already). If BT is convinced this will be possible, we questioned why they did not make a decision to enable every exchange with a trigger level in the order of trigger level achieved so far, why they have not lowered pre-existing trigger levels to take into account cost reductions and a longer payback period. BT also explains their plans for those who are situated too far away from exchanges to receive broadband under the current specifications.

Over 30 ready-for-service dates have been announced by BT including five as a result of the Devon partnership.

Following a major review of exchanges, this morning BT announced a further 2,300 trigger levels to bring 100% broadband coverage to the UK by 2005 but tells government and industry they need to help to achieve this goal. Thirty-two exchanges have already triggered with announcement of these new levels.

BT has published its half year and second quarter results to 30th September 2003. These show that the number of ADSL lines installed is over 1.5 million.

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