{"id":40652,"date":"2025-01-22T00:01:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T00:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=40652"},"modified":"2025-01-21T17:18:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T17:18:58","slug":"bt-wholesale-retires-uk-broadband-isp-speed-tester-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/01\/bt-wholesale-retires-uk-broadband-isp-speed-tester-service.html","title":{"rendered":"BT Wholesale Retires UK Broadband ISP Speed Tester Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Network services provider <a href=\"https:\/\/www.btwholesale.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BT Wholesale<\/a> has confirmed to ISPreview that they&#8217;ve taken the decision to &#8220;<em>retire<\/em>&#8221; their long-running <a href=\"https:\/\/speedtest.btwholesale.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BroadBand Performance Test<\/a> (speed tester), which is a change that was formally introduced at the start of this month. 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