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Direct Line hangs up on BT and C&W for Fibernet ATM
News Not only will this let them have the scalable network required allowing them to grow in line with the business, it also allows more customers to dial into the call centres without the need of paying for more leased lines. [16 Jun 2000]
The A to Z of broadband
News D is for Dial-up D is for Dial-up D is for Dial-up D is for Dial-up D is for Dial-up Dial-up D is for Dial-up D is for Dial-up Asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) technology has all but swept away the old dial-up internet access. [01 Nov 2006]
C&WC gets head start in pay-as-you-surf race
News Kevin Gooding, C&WC head of product marketing, said: "We see ourselves with a family of Internet offerings, going beyond basic dial-up services. Cable & Wireless Communications (C&WC) has stolen a march on BT in its effort to attract first-time... [02 Sep 1998]
BT embraces NetSuite's on-demand software
News D is for Dial-up 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 relationship... [22 Apr 2008]
BT hooks up first 21CN customers
News D is for Dial-up BT has moved its first customers to its 21st Century Network (21CN) in the initial phase of the next-generation network's national rollout. B is for BT Paul Reynolds, chief executive of BT Wholesale and board sponsor of the 21CN... [28 Nov 2006]
BT plans £1.5bn fat pipe upgrade
News D is for Dial-up BT is planning to spend £1.5bn on significantly upgrading its broadband network to support next generation super-fast internet. B is for BT BT says the planned investment is part of its strategy to deliver next generation broadband... [15 Jul 2008]
BT lags in broadband satisfaction stakes
News D is for Dial-up BT has come bottom of the eight major UK broadband providers in a customer satisfaction survey. BT declined to comment on the findings. B is for BT Behind Tiscali comes Virgin Media with a score of 660, then Sky (657), AOL (646... [06 Dec 2007]
BT rings up more than a million VoIP customers
News D is for Dial-up 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 Broadband... [10 Jan 2007]
Come an' Avatalk in Second Life, urges BT
News D is for Dial-up 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 by picking... [20 Mar 2008]
2010: UK dial-up's dying days
News Dial-up internet connections will comprise just four per cent of all UK residential connections by 2010, uSwitch.com is predicting. D is for Dial-up And only around one million of those will be using dial-up to get online, it predicts. [26 Nov 2007]
Phew! What a dial-up: UK tabloids take to the Net
News For BT and C&WC, money is made through driving dial-up calls to the ISP over their network. BT will provide the Internet backbone for the Sun's yet-to-be-named ISP (Internet service provider) service, while the Mirror is teaming up with Cable... [31 Jan 1999]
O2: A wannabe BT?
News D is for Dial-up 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]
Virgin touts free broadband speed upgrade
News D is for Dial-up B is for BT BT's forthcoming ADSL2+ tech will offer speed of up to 24Mbps, though the telco is also dabbling with fibre. A planned BT fibre deployment at Ebbsfleet, Kent, will offer speed of up to 100Mbps on a mixed development... [28 Jan 2008]
Cardiff poised to steal Swindon's fat pipe crown?
News D is for Dial-up B is for BT The Welsh capital was chosen by BT for initial tests of 21CN, with the first customers hooked up to the new network last month. C is for Cable & Wireless Nearly three-fifths (59.8 per cent) of homes in the Wiltshire... [11 Dec 2006]
Faster speeds on the cards for Broadband Britain?
News D is for Dial-up B is for BT 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. [22 Feb 2008]
