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News BT has launched its first trials of high speed ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) technology in London. Last month, the UK telco launched BT Highway, which offers Internet connection over ISDN lines, however ADSL is significantly faster.
[15 Oct 1998]
News Back in 2003, BT announced it was planning to run copper alongside the TPON fibre links to allow ADSL signals to be supported. BT's trials will not address another issue holding the UK back from universal broadband, the fact that some of the most...
[14 Sep 2005]
News A is for ADSL Virgin described this as 'a significant speed advantage' over regular 8Mbps ADSL connections and said the free upgrade will roll out by region from late next month and be completed by late summer.
[28 Jan 2008]
News A is for ADSL ADSL isn't the only type of DSL around, though it's by far the most common. A is for ADSL Click on the letters in the A to Z list to find out more about the technology that has revolutionised internet access - from ADSL to zombies.
[01 Nov 2006]
News A is for ADSL He cited ADSL+ - coming next year, with top speeds of up to 24Mbps - and said speeds would still "satisfy a lot of apps". Without investment to improve broadband infrastructure - such as fibre to the home and fibre to the cabinet...
[22 Nov 2007]
News A is for ADSL Tiscali CEO, Mary Turner, recently told silicon.com fibre to the cabinet - aka backhaul - needs to be "commercialised" as BT is not currently obliged by Ofcom to resell it. It is also sniffing around fibre.
[22 Feb 2008]
News I doubt BT will hit these targets of 20 to 25 per cent of the UK population using ADSL by 2006. BT Group's new CEO Ben Verwaayen said the company expects to get the majority of broadband users - 60 per cent - from customers replacing leased lines...
[26 Feb 2002]
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]
News A is for ADSL F is for Fibre But other companies are also looking at boosting the UK's fat pipes by laying fibre cabling in sewers - which could realise connection speeds of up to 100Mbps. B is for BT
[01 Feb 2008]
Comment Simon Brooks, marketing manager for BT's Interactive services network trial in West London, said: "ADSL gives people a step in between ISDN and a virtual private network. The large proportion of the ADSL target market would be those that are using...
[10 Nov 1998]
Comment DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) - which has received considerable publicity thanks to the squabble between the potential DSL service providers and BT - is an alternative worth considering once the nationwide rollout of the asymmetric version (ADSL...
[12 Oct 2000]
News A is for ADSL F is for Fibre BT and NetSuite have joined forces to bring web-based on-demand software to the telco's 1.6 million business customers. BT is offering NetSuite's business management applications and will soon provide customer...
[22 Apr 2008]
News A is for ADSL F is for Fibre BT has moved its first customers to its 21st Century Network (21CN) in the initial phase of the next-generation network's national rollout. Paul Reynolds, chief executive of BT Wholesale and board sponsor of the 21CN...
[28 Nov 2006]
News A is for ADSL F is for Fibre BT has come bottom of the eight major UK broadband providers in a customer satisfaction survey. B is for BT Behind Tiscali comes Virgin Media with a score of 660, then Sky (657), AOL (646), Orange (636), Pipex (634...
[06 Dec 2007]
News A is for ADSL Last year, H2O Networks won a contract to connect a student hall of residence at the University of Aberdeen via fibre laid down the drains. F is for Fibre H2O Networks - a company that lays fibre cabling in the sewer - is touting the...
[23 Jan 2008]
News A is for ADSL F is for Fibre More than one million consumer customers have signed up for BT's VoIP service since June last year. A BT spokesman told silicon.com the reason for the rapid uptake is largely down to the launch back in June of Total...
[10 Jan 2007]
News A is for ADSL F is for Fibre BT is upping its presence in Second Life with a trial of its free 'Avatalk' phone and texting service. B is for BT Users will be able to use their avatars to access the service at red BT phone boxes at five locations or...
[20 Mar 2008]
News However, the greater problem may prove fixing local networks used for ADSL provision and other BT services over copper lines. Trunk traffic is being re-routed using the telco's network centre in Oswestry, Shropshire, as fibre SDH backhaul links...
[23 Oct 2002]
News A is for ADSL F is for Fibre O2 has revealed plans that could see it lining up to compete with the likes of BT and NTL as it moves increasingly towards fixed-mobile convergence (FMC), broadband and various flavours of telly and advertising.
[15 Nov 2006]
News Major cable operator NTL has tried ADSL services over BT lines, but it too has decided to sell only over its own network. It claims the installation of fibre connections will provide a better and faster service than BT's copper lines.
[11 Dec 2000]
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