bt adsl in comment and analysis
Broadband madness on 1:25,000 scale
Comment But now we want to hear your examples of broadband madness and ADSL hell. In the UK the road to broadband happiness is littered with similar ironies - consider this response we received to a recent broadband story from silicon.com reader Simon... [25 Sep 2002]
Is it time to stop the broadband whinging?
Comment It could go gung-ho and ADSL-enable every exchange in the country and wait for the pounds to trickle in. But if you were a shareholder, would you be happy with BT having no idea when it might see a return on such an investment? [10 Sep 2002]
The Ovum View: DSL is taking off - but where's it going?
Comment After a poor start, the roll out of ADSL services in Europe is now racing ahead and, in some countries, installation rates have accelerated markedly. For some time, broadband cable services have often been priced below similar ADSL services, which... [08 May 2002]
Dot-com shockers and the Grabiner effect
Comment BT announced its new, 'no frills' ADSL package for the second time on Wednesday (http://www.silicon.com/a52900 ). As his email to us reads, "I was authorised by our local parish council.to make enquiries of BT about ADSL provision in our local... [25 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]
It's tough being a cyborg
Comment But in Japan, Sarda says the number of ADSL subscribers has increased by 20 per cent in six months because of the work of a content-led, government-backed consortium. Sandip Sarda, a member of BT's original broadband taskforce back in the heady... [21 Mar 2002]
Let the broadband meltdown commence
Comment Their experience of ADSL has been somewhat heavenly. Trouble is, this new flood of custom is stressing-out ISPs like Pipex who will now have to break it to their users that life with ADSL isn't quite a bed of half-megabit roses. [14 Mar 2002]
BT playing its broadband hand
Comment But the some 200 service providers who resell BT's ADSL network have much to do. Within hours of its commitment to halve the price of wholesale ADSL (as of 1 April) service providers were issuing press releases promising to pass at least some of... [26 Feb 2002]
Surviving the recession: a Quocirca series
Comment Second, bandwidth is still a problem - it shouldn't be but due to the efforts of Oftel and BT we are still firmly mired in the technological wastelands when it comes to broadband access and the confused SME market doesn't know whether it should be... [13 Feb 2002]
Devil's Advocate: The UK as broadband backwater?
Comment ADSL, being asynchronous, is suited to consumers with high-speed in only one direction. The latter provide a very significant revenue stream to incumbent telephone operators, especially BT. It is possible now to rent cheap voice links from BT and... [29 Jan 2002]
The Yearly Round-Up
Comment I'd like to know) made BT open up its local exchanges to rival firms so we'd have a vibrant market for ADSL and other services. Firstly, it's been accused of rolling out ADSL too slowly. ADSL is all about net access, and most companies interested... [14 Dec 2001]
Networks - can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em
Comment BT is notoriously reluctant to give service level agreements, least of all to small fry with dial-up accounts or ADSL. Last week represented a monstrous debacle for BT, even by its standards. The silicon.com virtual mailbag has been bursting at the... [26 Nov 2001]
The Gadget Showdown: DSL v Cable
Comment BT ADSL BT's ADSL service - the market leader for home broadband access, for obvious reasons - was tested by Ben King in east London (E1), while Tony Hallett tested blueyonder in the southwest of the capital (SW19). [08 Nov 2001]
A journey to DSL hell
Comment But getting ADSL from BT - not even some reseller or a company grappling with local loop unbundling - wasn't easy. Over a month after I first requested it, a charming gentleman from BT knocked on my door. [08 Nov 2001]
Bye-bye Bonfield
Comment BT claimed just this week that 70 per cent of the population can - in theory - get ADSL (see http://www.silicon.com/a48668 ). BT began working on ADSL at least five years ago, with the first trials happening in West London not long after. [02 Nov 2001]
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