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News A is for ADSL A is for ADSL A is for ADSL A is for ADSL A is for ADSL A is for ADSL ADSL is offered by roughly 200 different ISPs in the UK, with all manner of extra options for consumers to choose from. [01 Nov 2006]
Oftel throws out Freeserve's BT complaint
News The telecommunications regulator said it still believes that BT Openworld's decision to cut the price of its consumer ADSL product in March 2002 was fair. The row began after BT made large cuts to the price of its wholesale ADSL offerings, which... [24 Nov 2003]
Wanted: The 'best and brightest' broadband users in Britain
News However, the competition is only open to ADSL users, and someone who is doing fantastic things with, for example, a satellite broadband connection wouldn't be eligible to win. I'm confident the Broadband Britain Challenge will play a key role in... [08 May 2003]
BT commits to rural broadband trials
News The trial involves a new sponsorship business model, and new technology for lowering the cost of providing ADSL broadband, BT said. The sponsorship scheme partly addresses BT's often-stated reluctance to invest in providing ADSL services in areas... [15 Aug 2002]
'No-frills' DSL falls below £20
News ET Global Solutions is offering a self-install ADSL product for £18.95 per month including VAT, while fairADSL's service sells for £18.99 per month including VAT, and V21 is asking for £19.99. Customers will have to provide their own ADSL modems... [05 Aug 2002]
The Ovum View: DSL is taking off - but where's it going?
Comment For some time, broadband cable services have often been priced below similar ADSL services, which has impacted positively on take-up levels. After a poor start, the roll out of ADSL services in Europe is now racing ahead and, in some countries... [08 May 2002]
Pipex defends BT in Freeserve ADSL spat
News Britain's second-largest broadband ISP, Pipex, is backing BT in the telco's war of words with Freeserve over ADSL. BT wholesale's total ADSL customer base is around 160,000, of whom 100,000 are customers of BTopenworld. [04 Apr 2002]
Devil's Advocate: "If I ruled the world..."
Comment Domestic ADSL is based on 50 users contending for bandwidth but existing services are well below the design limit. This neglects the problem that nearly all the contenders are simply resellers of the basic BT service but leave that issue aside for... [02 Apr 2002]
BT's broadband price cuts are "anti-competitive"
News Now that BT has cut wholesale broadband prices to below £14.75 from 1 April, it will become increasingly difficult to compete with BT Wholesale and the ADSL services it supplies to around 200 ISPs such as BTopenworld, Freeserve, Pipex and Zen. [28 Mar 2002]
BT broadband price cuts: How is it done?
News The biggest piece of equipment in an ADSL network is something called a DSLAM, a device which looks like a small filing cabinet covered in flashing lights which sits in the local exchange and turns a phone line into a fat data pipe. [27 Feb 2002]
BT cuts broadband costs
News He also revealed BT's plans to attract one million asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) broadband connections over its network by summer 2003. Rental for existing ADSL wholesale customers of these services will also drop to £14.75. [26 Feb 2002]
BT drops ADSL prices by £5
News BT Wholesale is dropping its ADSL prices by £5 to £30 a month, but rivals believe it is "too little too late". He added: "Thus is concerned BT has been able to manipulate its dominant market position by offering prices below market value and... [27 Jul 2001]
The best of Reader Comments: The broadband backlash, lazy voters and Gates' Linux lashing
Comment It's less than "irrelevant" to talk about initiatives to make sure broadband reaches less densely populated parts of the country when its roll-out in urban areas sometimes seems to be just an urban myth ("a friend of a friend of mine has just had... [11 May 2001]
