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BT drops Home Highway, ISDN prices

BT is dropping the installation costs of Home Highway, Business Highway and ISDN services from April 1st, according to documents... Read more

29 March, 1999 by Rupert Goodwins

BT service promises ISDN speed over phone lines

...like speeds over existing phone lines without the price premium of ISDN, Home Highway is expected to bring fast and affordable digital lines to the... Read more

21 August, 1998 by Martin Veitch

ADSL - an apology of a service

...are so hard. For example, let's take someone who had a Home Highway Together installation. That's one line, three phone numbers -- got that... Read more

23 November, 2000 by Guy Kewney

BT delays ADSL again, Freeserve says it's a 'disgrace'

...Gartner Group analyst Adam Daum agrees. "BT has dropped the price of Home Highway to make it attractive to the mass market and has promoted... Read more

3 March, 2000 by Jane Wakefield

Rupert Goodwins: "IT's Like This..."

...year, BT seemed to start making the right noises. A new service, Home Highway, would appear and would finally make ISDN attractive to the ordinary... Read more

26 August, 1998 by Rupert Goodwins

BT steps up Home Highway promotion

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9 February, 1999 by Polly Raymond

Customers slam BT over ISDN charges

...discover he had to shell out £99 in order to convert his Home Highway line back to a standard phone line. BT admits that the... Read more

31 October, 2000 by Jane Wakefield

BT pulls the plug on Midband

...Midband is being phased out because BT is also stopping selling its Home Highway ISDN product, an expensive precursor to broadband on which Midband was... Read more

6 September, 2005 by Graeme Wearden

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

...rate ISDN, to be sure, but capped and not that different from Home Highway. It turns out, says head honcho Pierre Danon -- does anyone else... Read more

21 March, 2003 by Rupert Goodwins

Tuesday

...rate ISDN, to be sure, but capped and not that different from Home Highway. It turns out, says head honcho Pierre Danon -- does anyone else... Read more

21 March, 2003

Why choose one wireless standard when you can have them all

...of providing a phone line. In the UK, the pricing of ISDN "Home Highway" is absurdly prohibitive. In Germany, also, you can get ISDN and... Read more

11 October, 2001 by Guy Kewney

Reliable broadband still needs backup

...are worrying about new problems -- in particular, the bureaucracy of switching from Home Highway to ADSL. There are new products coming out which allow you... Read more

10 April, 2001 by Guy Kewney

BT accused of being incomprehensible

...says Lister. One woman complained that she had been put on the Home Highway scheme when she didn't even own a PC. For its... Read more

18 January, 2001 by Jane Wakefield

BT owns up to ADSL cockup

...is BT's organisation, have found that this is because they have Home Highway Together, which is not classified as a voice line, and only... Read more

3 November, 2000 by Guy Kewney

Tenner a month

...whether you dial by phone and modem, or whether you connect via Home Highway or other ISDN link. That figure is my own best guess... Read more

31 May, 2000 by Guy Kewney

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