UK ISP KeConnect has begun issuing its remaining fixed-speed (HOME 500 to 2000) broadband customers with a letter warning them that the BT supplied service will soon be coming to an end. The notice, most of which has been re-pasted below, urges users to upgrade onto the ISPs more modern 'up to' 8Mbps packages:


Typically most UK ISPs have already phased out their pre-8Mbps fixed-speed ADSL broadband packages, although many still have existing customers on those services, even though they may no longer be offered in public. Others have quietly upgraded users onto a MAX (8Mbps) package with lower fixed-speeds to match their old one.

BT had always intended to retire fixed-speed services with the completion of their 21st Century Network (21CN) project, although as the ISP itself suggests, pinning down a precise date hasn't been easy. Neither BT nor KeConnect have responded to our hails for a comment.

Meanwhile, customers of other ISPs with older 512Kbps to 2Mbps fixed-speed ADSL packages should probably expect to receive a similar sort of message sometime in the near future. Typically this does not apply to ADSL services advertising speeds of up to and over 8Mbps (MAX, WBC etc.).