BT Publish Latest 21CN WBC 20Mbps UK Copper Broadband Rollout Update

BTWholesale has today furnished ISPreview.co.uk with their latest telephone exchange based roll-out update for the on-going deployment of the 21CN based Wholesale Broadband Connect (WBC) platform; specifically the part that supports their up to 20Mbps capable ADSL2+ solution.

The “advanced copper” WBC service, which is based off BT’s 21st Century Network (21CN) that is slowly replacing their older up to 8Mbps capable ADSL / 20CN platform, currently covers 90% of the United Kingdom (around 22.5 million premises) and as previously reported BT hope to push that out to 92% and possibly a little higher (here).

BT are also keen to stress that “all forward looking plans are subject to change. However, the expectations reflected in this forward-looking plan are reasonable, but because our rollout involves risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking plans.”

It’s similarly important not to confuse this update with BT’s related but separate roll-out of fibre optic based superfast broadband (FTTC) services, which requires the 21CN platform but also needs significant additional investment and work at street cabinets before that specific service can go live (e.g. the installation of new fibre optic cable).

BT Wholesale WBC/21CN Roll-Out Update – November 2013 (ZIP / MS Excel)
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/bt_wbc_rollout_update_November_2013.zip

UPDATE 11th Nov 2013:

We have temporarily disabled the download as it was being linked far and wide, which caused a lot of server strain. A mirror can be found below.

http://www.filedropper.com/btwbcrolloutupdatenovember2013_1