Communications provider Entanet UK, which supplies a number of ISPs with BT-based internet access solutions, has unexpectedly entered into a new strategic relationship with former rival BE Wholesale ( Be Broadband ) to deploy unbundled ( LLU ) based 'up to' 24Mbps broadband services alongside its similar BT solutions.

The move should allow Entanet's partners (ISPs) to offer a greater diversity of broadband products, such as "keenly priced and uncapped" services that would be harder to deliver via a BT-based platform.


However there is a risk that others might choose to view Entanet's move as showing a loss of confidence in the competitiveness of their own BT-based solutions, which have in recent years come under mounting pressure from lower cost unbundled ( LLU ) rivals (e.g. Sky Broadband , O2 and TalkTalk etc.).


It's stated that the new service, which Entanet has recently been busy putting through various ordering and provisioning trials, will be made available to its reseller partners "imminently".