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Bandwidth talk turns off broadband late adopters
News Some in the industry have suggested that this plan, if implemented, could result in the creation of a next-generation local loop that would duplicate some of the functionality of BT's existing network of local exchanges.
[November 20, 2002, 16:21]
Trouble in DSL's broadband paradise
News To get DSL running for a customer, the retailer must work with a competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC), such as Covad Communications or NorthPoint Communications, which in turn has to ask for a local loop from the regional Bell company.
[October 26, 1999, 13:44]
Jane Wakefield: Town and country clash on unmetered
News Next summer the local loop unbundles and those precious bits of copper BT is clinging onto will finally be offered to other operators. The wires that connect our houses to the local exchange -- called in telecom speak the local loop -- is owned...
[August 25, 2000, 16:50]
Task switching with RTOS
News Switching from a "one-big-loop" style of programming to a multithreaded real-time operating system (RTOS) can make sense in many applications. In contrast to the one-big-loop method, it isn't necessary to wait for other, less important jobs to...
[September 3, 2002, 14:58]
The 3 'G's of mobile data
Talkback The website mentions nothing and customer services is as out of the loop as I am. Repeated calls to support just caused some poor underpaid operative in Sri Lanka to roll through their litany of checking my local network (THEM: "your coverage there...
[September 5, 2005, 19:51]
3G: It Still Does Nothing
Talkback The website mentions nothing and customer services is as out of the loop as I am. Repeated calls to support just caused some poor underpaid operative in Sri Lanka to roll through their litany of checking my local network (THEM: "your coverage there...
[September 5, 2005, 19:50]
Hotmail flaw may have been admin tool gone awry
News This one just happened to be a lazy loop that affected 40-50 million user accounts. Those queues aren't local and are beyond our control. According to the source, Hotmail could prevent similar occurrences using one-way encryption algorithms that...
[August 31, 1999, 11:26]
Oracle database event triggering
News The order/invoice loop was already automated in the form of EDI and in place years before ERP penetrated the United States. You can then use create synonym to make this selected remote a local table to your application.
[February 26, 2003, 13:55]
Unbundling soldiers on despite logistical hiccups
News Local loop unbundling (LLU) is the process whereby competitors to BT are able to install their own equipment in BT's exchanges. She also said Openreach was "on target again" after Black identified certain "supply problems and logistics problems...
[September 4, 2006, 16:55]
North Wales launches high-speed fibre network
News FibreSpeed will initially be available to around 1,000 businesses located on key business parks in north Wales, but the Assembly Government said it anticipates service providers will invest in infrastructure of their own — such as LLU (local loop...
[November 28, 2008, 7:24]
BT suspends ADSL rollout
News BT believes that it isn't economic to spend money on local exchanges in these areas to make them ADSL-enabled -- a credible position given the disappointing pace of local-loop unbundling (LLU). Having made around 1,000 local exchanges ADSL-ready...
[November 5, 2001, 12:02]
Broadband unbundler targets public sector
News Local-loop unbundling was meant to bring more wholesale competition to the UK, but over the past few years it has largely been a failure. So far, Updata has contracts with two local authorities -- Bedfordshire and North Somerset -- and is running...
[July 30, 2004, 12:40]
Microsoft urges Europe to speed up broadband services
News In the US the Telecommunications Act of 1996 unbundled the local loop and has really opened the market up. Local calls are free in America and the infrastructure is pretty advanced compared to the rest of the world but different geographies and...
[October 13, 1999, 16:33]
BT project brings broadband to regions
News Companies such as Thus and Colt, who are involved in local-loop unbundling, might well want to put their equipment inside the exchanges if this project succeeds," speculated the BT spokesman. Support and equipment will be supplied to 3,300 local...
[December 11, 2001, 12:17]
Broadband enters the DIY age
News Justin Fielder, local loop unbundling manager at Easynet, said before Christmas that the DIY option was "the only way that consumer broadband makes business sense. Rather than the £150 installation fee, customers need only pay £50 to cover...
[January 16, 2002, 15:18]
CoolTerm
Downloads Local echoing of received data (loop back to sender). Local echoing of transmitted data. CoolTerm is a simple serial port terminal application (no terminal emulation) that is geared towards hobbyists and professionals with a need to exchange data...
[July 18, 2009, 5:36]
Easynet moves in on BT's wholesale market
News Easynet was a pioneer of LLU (local loop unbundling) and currently has connections in 240 local exchanges, giving it access to 4.4 million homes and 700,000 businesses. Easynet has launched the first challenge to BT in wholesale broadband with its...
[December 13, 2004, 14:50]
Eye2Eye: John Pluthero talks to ZDNet, Part III
News Local loop unbundling would do it for sure, because then you say any telephony operator can come in and set up propositions for the customer. Indeed, when Brown gave a speech saying, "Local loop unbundling quick", Oftel said, "Hang on -- no-one has...
[March 10, 2000, 13:22]
AOL pushes towards unbundled broadband
News AOL UK is looking to break away from its dependency on BT for its broadband services by embracing local-loop unbundling (LLU). The ISP, one of the UK's largest, has created an in-house LLU operation and is in the process of appointing a director of...
[December 8, 2004, 14:45]
Blair called to stick to telecoms commitment
News Earlier this year Tony Blair made a commitment to opening up the local loop by the beginning of 2001 and did so on an international stage surrounded by his European counterparts. As the deadline approaches Internet firm GTS called on Blair to...
[October 18, 2000, 12:03]
