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RSS bt adslOftel happy with BT's DIY ADSL
News The DIY gadget costs £50 rather than the £150 charged when a BT engineer is required to install a DSL line and the ADSL service will cost £25 per month, a saving of £5. Oftel has given the big thumbs up to BT's plug-and-play broadband access. [26 Oct 2001]
BT trials high-speed ADSL media service
News The content-oriented service will be based on ADSL (Asymmetric DSL), offering download speeds of 2Mbps - 35 times faster than 56Kbps dial-up modems. BT has stepped up its trials of high-speed DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) services, claiming it does... [10 Dec 1998]
BT offers free ADSL...
News BT has contacted 850,000 users of its unmetered dial-up access services offering them free DSL upgrades at a saving of £150. The offer is only available to people who were subscribers to the BTopenworld Anytime and BTopenworld for BT Surf customers... [02 Oct 2001]
BT presented with ADSL price challenge
News The price compares with £39.99 and £150 installation charge for BT's 500 Kbps ADSL offering - when you can get it. After the Leeds and Bradford trials, Tele2 aims to target other cities before BT extends ADSL to them. [31 Oct 2000]
Telewest takes on BT
News Telewest has begun a high-speed broadband trial that the company said is a direct challenge to BT's ADSL offering. The company claims its fat service outclasses BT's ADSL product. Philip Jansen, managing director of the consumer division at... [23 Apr 2002]
ADSL trialists angered by BT pilot schemes
News Trial users of BT's ADSL service in London have reacted angrily to the telco's decision to add £20 to the subscription fee and cut the available bandwith to one quarter of its original speed. Silicon.com has been flooded with complaints since BT... [29 Oct 1999]
BT shifts the ADSL goalposts
News BT is to end its current ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) trial and plans to replace it with a reduced and more expensive service. Other changes include the introduction of a 'log in' feature - thereby doing away with the 'always on... [20 Oct 1999]
BT signs broadband deal with Dell
News Hot on the heels of a far-reaching deal with Microsoft, BT today announced plans to work with Dell to get its no-frills ADSL product out to consumers and small businesses. The idea is that Dell will market ADSL to its existing customers, some of... [07 Nov 2002]
BT under fire for ADSL retreat
News BT has been attacked by the head of ISP XchangePoint over its refusal to roll out any more ADSL exchanges. BT hasn't covered enough exchanges because a few months ago it lowered the price of its ADSL offering, essentially making it economically... [06 Nov 2001]
BT's 'campaign in a box' boost for broadband have-nots
News BT has given a boost to local groups campaigning for broadband by giving them advice and practical assistance on how to persuade more of their neighbours to sign up for ADSL and hit the 'trigger levels' for their exchange. [15 Apr 2003]
BT broadband plans: 1Mbps service on the way...
News ADSL users should be able to sign up for a 1Mbps broadband service by the start of next year, as part of a slew of forthcoming broadband developments announced by BT on Tuesday. Both of the UK's cable companies already offer a 1Mbps broadband... [25 Mar 2003]
BT sets sail for cheaper DSL
News BT has unveiled a raft of measures designed to bring down the cost of ADSL, in a bid to boost flagging demand. More importantly, it will help BT cut the cost of ADSL. ADSL from BT Wholesale currently costs £35 per month with an installation fee of... [24 Jul 2001]
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]
BT sets another 100 broadband trigger levels
News BT announced details of a further swathe of broadband trigger levels on Monday, giving hope to 102 communities that currently aren't served by its ADSL network. BT had not set trigger levels for these 102 exchanges earlier because it either hadn't... [31 Mar 2003]
BT broadband hits 2Mbps
News Any of the 100 or more ISPs reselling BT's ADSL services can take part. The telco is inviting all existing ADSL broadband customers to sign up and test a two megabits-per-second product. ADSL's technical limitations means the 2Mbps link won't work... [03 Nov 2004]
