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BT Wholesale Moot New Voice Assured Broadband Service for VoIP Calls

7th April, 2014 (5 Comments)

BT Wholesale has started consulting ISPs on the possible introduction of a new product called Voice Assured Broadband (VABB), which appears designed to optimise standard ADSL2+ and superfast FTTC (VDSL) lines for calls made via the Voice over IP (VoIP) protocol.

UPD BT Committed to Tackling UK Network Congestion Woes Raised by AAISP

26th February, 2014 (29 Comments)

BT Wholesale’s incident helpdesk manager has told the boss of broadband provider AAISP, Adrian Kennard, that they’re “fully committed to ensuring that all capacity issues are addressed” after concerns over alleged network congestion on several of BT’s 21st Century Network (21CN) telephone exchanges were raised.

Former BT Wholesale CEO Joins CityFibre as UK Non-Executive Director

17th February, 2014 (0 Comments)

Urban fibre optic network developer CityFibre has today appointed the former CEO of BTWholesale, Sally Davis, to the role of non-executive director in the hope that the operator will be able to draw on her “considerable experience” to help build on their recent expansion and investment wins.

UK Businesses At Risk as BT Set to Disconnect 20CN Broadband Services

5th February, 2014 (7 Comments)

The national telecoms operator has rebuffed claims made by business Internet provider Timico, which earlier this week estimated that 10% of companies in the United Kingdom could face the “worst case scenario” of being completely “cut off” from their broadband services as BT withdraws its old 20CN platform.

BT Wholesale Broadband Checker Adds More FTTC Speed Details

22nd November, 2013 (20 Comments)

BT Wholesale have once again updated their broadband availability checker and this time they’ve added some additional information to help with the speed predictions on ‘up to’ 80Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC) broadband lines (aka – “fibre broadband” as some ISPs describe it).

Cardiff Council and BT to Deploy Free Public WiFi Across City Centre

14th November, 2013 (0 Comments)

Cardiff Council has today announced plans to roll-out an “initially” free wireless Internet (wifi) hotspot service across the city centre, which BT will build by installing access points on the areas existing lamp posts and other street furniture.

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

8th November, 2013 (101 Comments)

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.

UPDATE TalkTalk UK Want BT to Charge ISPs £4 for FTTC Broadband

11th October, 2013 (37 Comments)

The CEO of budget Internet provider TalkTalk, Dido Harding, has once again reiterated her belief that BT is “acting anti-competitively” in the market for superfast broadband (FTTC) products and she wants them to cut the related wholesale price that it charges ISPs to around £4 +vat a month.

Softer Blow for BT as Ofcom UK Revise its Wholesale Broadband Price Cuts

20th August, 2013 (2 Comments)

The UK telecoms regulator has today issued a correction to its original July 2013 proposal (here) that would force BT into reducing the cost of their fixed line wholesale broadband services (WLR, SMPF, MPF) to ISPs. The changes represent only a small price difference of a few pence to a few pounds but then the original proposal wasn’t huge either.

UK ISP BT Retail Tops 6.8M Broadband Subscribers and 1.5m Adopt FTTC

25th July, 2013 (39 Comments)

BT Group has today released their latest financial results to 30th June 2013 (Q2), which saw the operators retail ISP division increase their fixed line broadband subscribers by +95,000 in the quarter to total 6,799,000 (down from the +136k added in Q1-2013 and +122k in Q4-2012).

UPDATE Ofcom Force BT to Cut UK Standard Wholesale Broadband ISP Prices

11th July, 2013 (10 Comments)

Ofcom has today proposed several new measures that would effectively force BT to cut the cost of their fixed line wholesale broadband services (WLR, SMPF, MPF) to Internet providers (ISP) and redefine which parts of the United Kingdom (UK) should be subject to related regulation or indeed de-regulation.

UPDATE Entanet Based UK ISPs to Offer Unlimited Broadband Packages

7th May, 2013 (8 Comments)

Communications provider Entanet, which supplies internet access and other telecoms services to a number of ISPs and businesses across the United Kingdom, has this afternoon announced the addition of a new unlimited broadband product to its BTWholesale (WBC) based ADSL, ADSL2+ and FTTC platform.

Prospect Union Slams Ofcom UK Probe of BT Superfast Broadband Prices

3rd May, 2013 (21 Comments)

Prospect, which claims to be an independent union for professionals like engineers, scientists and managers, has warned that Ofcom’s new TalkTalk supported investigation into BT’s “alleged margin squeeze in superfast broadband pricing” could damage investment in the UK telecoms network.

Ofcom UK Probes BT After TalkTalk FTTC Broadband Competition Complaint

2nd May, 2013 (11 Comments)

BT has said that its “disappointed” after the UK communications regulator, Ofcom, responded to a competition complaint from rival ISP TalkTalk by opening an investigation into whether or not the operator was “abusing a dominant position” in its supply of superfast broadband (FTTC and FTTP) services.

BT Wholesale and O2 UK Sign Deal to Boost 4G Mobile Data Capacity

29th April, 2013 (0 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 UK (Telefonica) has signed a new ten-year deal that will see BTWholesale work to support the imminent introduction of faster 4G (LTE) based mobile broadband services for millions of the operators customers by building a new high capacity transmission network.

UPDATE3 BT Reveal UK FTTC Self Install and Vectoring Broadband Trial

19th April, 2013 (91 Comments)

BTWholesale has revealed the seemingly imminent launch of a new ISP trial to test the operators first wires-only self install superfast broadband service (no engineer required), which could dramatically cut the setup cost and contract length of UK FTTC lines. A trial of VDSL Vectoring (faster FTTC speeds) is also on the cards.

BT Nears Final Phase of UK Retirement for 20CN Broadband ISP Services

17th April, 2013 (5 Comments)

BT’s strategy to retire their older 20th Century Network (20CN) based broadband ISP services (e.g. 8Mbps ADSL / IPStream Connect products) remains on course to begin its final phase in October 2013, which by 31st March 2014 should see related services being removed from a total of 2549 telephone exchanges around the United Kingdom.