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Winning village misses out on BT super-fast broadband

...the end, 10 winners were chosen in February 2011 to have their local exchanges enabled for BT Infinity broadband "in early 2012".However, West Hagbourne... Read more

16 March, 2012 by Ben Woods
Deterministic Structured Network Coding For WWAN Video Broadcast With Cooperative Peer-to-Peer Repair

Deterministic Structured Network Coding For WWAN Video Broadcast With Cooperative Peer-to-Peer Repair

...Coding (NC) to linearly combine received packets into new CPR packets for local exchanges, packet recovery can be improved Read more

29 September, 2010

BT expands broadband rollout

...announced on Monday that it will roll out ADSL to another 100 local exchanges by the end of May. The move, which the telco said... Read more

8 April, 2002 by Graeme Wearden

Hundreds of exchanges fail BT trigger test

...levels for 322 local telephone exchanges across rural Britain. After examining these local exchanges and assessing the cost of ADSL-enabling them, the telco has... Read more

16 October, 2003 by Graeme Wearden

Easynet upbeat on local-loop unbundling

...telecoms firms to install their own equipment in or near a BT local exchanges and provide wholesale telecoms services for ISPs. When it was first... Read more

5 July, 2002 by Graeme Wearden

BT targets four-fifths of UK for broadband

...register demand for broadband in a particular area, and will ADSL-enable local exchanges when a certain number is reached. As first reported by ZDNet... Read more

18 June, 2002 by Graeme Wearden

Easynet warns against telecoms complacency

The machete of regulation must be wielded to prevent a competitive telecoms market being choked by the jungle of incumbency, says Easynet's chief executive Read more

18 December, 2002 by Graeme Wearden

Easynet sees fruits of unbundling labours

The telco is claiming to be the only effective participant in the UK's local-loop unbundling process Read more

4 September, 2002 by Graeme Wearden

UK broadband reaches two-thirds of population

Two-thirds of the UK population can now get ADSL, according to BT, but many people in rural areas remain excluded Read more

31 May, 2002 by Graeme Wearden

Three more local exchanges to get ADSL

BT said on Monday that three more local exchanges will join its broadband network by February 2003 -- taking to 17... Read more

11 November, 2002 by Graeme Wearden

Three more local exchanges to get ADSL

Hurray BT said on Monday that three more local exchanges will join its broadband network by February 2003 - taking the number... Read more

12 November, 2002 by Graeme Wearden

Broadband competition boosted by Ofcom

...operators to compete with BT by installing equipment in the telco's local exchanges. The operators can then offer their own wholesale services over BT... Read more

17 December, 2004 by Graeme Wearden

BT: Education key to broadband

...contributed over £5m to the project. Under the project, an initial six local exchanges that would not otherwise have been upgraded to ADSL were broadband... Read more

27 January, 2003 by Graeme Wearden

BT fixes broadband glitch

...that meant broadband was unavailable to many customers at several newly upgraded local exchanges. The telco said on Monday that it had identified that the... Read more

23 December, 2002 by Graeme Wearden

Confusion at BT over broadband rollout

...pointing out that it might never be commercially viable to upgrade remote local exchanges that have few homes connected to them. BT has often been... Read more

4 July, 2002 by Graeme Wearden

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