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RSS bt adslADSL 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 slashes hundreds of broadband trigger levels
News As the process of rolling out ADSL gets cheaper, BT needs less guaranteed local interest before opening its wallet and upgrading a telephone exchange Twenty-two local communities will get their first taste of ADSL in April, following a revision by... [24 Jan 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]
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 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 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]
Three more local exchanges to get ADSL
News BT said on Monday that three more local exchanges will join its broadband network by February 2003 - taking the number of exchanges that have been promised ADSL thanks to local interest to 17. Bradford-on-Avon in Wiltshire, Tottington near... [12 Nov 2002]
Rural broadband rollout hits roadblock
News Yorkshire market town Knaresborough has fallen foul of BT's ADSL registration scheme after only a quarter of residents who had earlier expressed an interest in broadband actually signed up for a high-speed net connection. [11 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 cuts see Thus slash broadband costs
News UK telco Thus has announced it is to cut the cost of its business broadband service following BT's wholesale ADSL price cuts. He said: "While we welcome the wholesale price cuts, it is disappointing that we cannot reduce costs for all our business... [01 May 2003]
BT's broadband plans spark countryside revolt
News This week we have been inundated with responses to a story we ran on BT's refusal to roll out ADSL exchanges in large parts of rural Britain (http://www.silicon.com/a52754 ). I work for one of the University colleges in the centre of Cambridge and... [19 Apr 2002]
More towns and villages to get broadband by the summer
News Homes and businesses in 27 new locations across the UK will be able to join the broadband revolution this summer as BT continues expanding its ADSL network, the company has promised. A total of 214 exchanges have now been added to BT's ADSL rollout... [18 Mar 2003]
No price cut planned for BT Broadband
News BT Broadband, the "no-frills" high-speed internet access package sold by BT Retail, will not be dropping in price in response to last week's ADSL price cuts. Last week, BT cut the cost of wholesale consumer ADSL from £14.75 per month to £13. [09 Apr 2003]
A year in review: Local loop, BT's last monopoly
News The local loop is important because breaking BT's ownership is key to reducing internet access prices, and introducing high bandwidth services such as ADSL. Some telcos were unhappy at BT's launch of ADSL services, pre-empting its rivals' inability... [22 Dec 2000]
Rumours abound of a BT broadband price cut
News BT has announced that its wholesale ADSL prices are under review - but the telco has been quick to quash consumer hopes of an imminent cut. BT slashed its wholesale ADSL prices back in spring 2002 - giving a major boost to the take-up of high-speed... [27 Mar 2003]
