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Confusion At BT Over Broadband Rollout
News BT's decision to create a Web-based broadband registration scheme appears to have led to confusion within the telco itself over future broadband rollout plans. The broadband registration scheme, which went live earlier this month, allows consumers...
[July 4, 2002, 16:19]
BT Speeds Up Broadband Rollout Scheme
News BT is changing its broadband demand registration scheme, which the company uses to assess broadband demand in areas that are currently not covered by its ADSL network. The broadband demand registration scheme was launched this summer as a way of...
[December 17, 2002, 11:58]
Rural Broadband Scheme Set For First Upgrade
News Todmorden is set to become the first part of the UK to be upgraded to broadband thanks to public demand and a new pre-registration scheme. As ZDNet UK reported last month, the Todmorden exchange was the first to hit its "trigger level" on BT's...
[October 22, 2002, 8:52]
More Exchanges Get Promise Of Broadband
News BT's broadband registration scheme is showing further signs of success, with 33 local exchanges recently getting the green light to be upgraded to offer ADSL. He added that BT's decision last month to streamline its broadband registration scheme...
[January 14, 2003, 13:00]
BT Slashes Hundreds Of Broadband Trigger Levels
News Twenty-two local communities will get their first taste of ADSL in April, following a revision by BT its broadband registration scheme. The registration scheme has helped us guide investment in broadband to match demand," said Paul Reynolds, BT...
[January 24, 2003, 11:35]
Rural Broadband Rollout Hits Problems
News Yorkshire market town Knaresborough has become the first part of the UK to fail BT's broadband registration scheme, after only a quarter of residents who had earlier expressed interest in broadband actually told a service provider that they would...
[November 11, 2002, 13:15]
BT's ADSL Rollout Keeps Up Momentum
News BT announced on Monday that a further 20 local exchanges have been added to its broadband rollout programme after hitting their pre-registration trigger levels. In each case, sufficient local residents registered interest in getting broadband...
[February 24, 2003, 16:12]
Rural Broadband Drive 'hit By Fraud'
News BT's broadband registration scheme, which lets people who can't get ADSL in their area tell the telco they want broadband, is being hampered by people who are submitting false information. BT's broadband registration scheme is based on 'trigger...
[November 13, 2002, 16:30]
BT Promises A New Broadband Exchange A Day
News Pierre Danon, chief executive at BT Retail, told the e-Summit on London on Tuesday that the company's broadband pre-registration scheme was helping the rollout of broadband networks across the UK. Todmorden, in North Yorkshire, was the first place...
[November 20, 2002, 12:51]
BT Targets Four-fifths Of UK For Broadband
News As first reported by ZDNet UK yesterday, the Web-based broadband registration scheme -- which will start on 1 July -- should help to speed up the rollout of broadband across the UK. This registration initiative opens up further opportunities for...
[June 18, 2002, 15:52]
First Success For BT's Broadband Demand Tracker
News BT said that the breakthrough at Todmorton was very good news, and showed that the broadband pre-registration scheme -- which was criticised as little more than a PR move by some in the industry when it was first announced -- was a success.
[September 9, 2002, 17:16]
ADSL Routs Cable In Broadband Take-up Battle
News BT's ADSL network now covers over 20 million UK homes and businesses, thanks to the success of its broadband registration scheme. Since the appointment of Ben Verwaayan as BT's chief executive, the telco has cut its broadband prices dramatically...
[March 15, 2004, 13:05]
Broadband ISPs Get £1m Bonanza From BT
News Bruce Stanford, BT's director of broadband, said that this new marketing scheme was the next step in BT's attempt to drive broadband take-up in the UK, and could even be used in conjunction with BT's Web-based broadband registration scheme.
[July 30, 2002, 10:49]
More Towns And Villages To Get Broadband By The Summer
News In January, BT cut many of its trigger levels -- including that of Rhos-on-Sea, which fell to 350 -- a decision which gave a boost to the many local campaigns around the UK that are encouraging people to show their interest in broadband via BT's...
[March 18, 2003, 11:33]
Industry Backs Ofcom Call For Wi-Fi Boost
News The first option would see no registration requirements and no geographical restrictions. The third option is similar to the second, except the geographical limitations would come from a "mandatory registration scheme" and users working...
[July 28, 2006, 11:40]
Broadband Supremo Calls For Grass-roots Revolution
News We need revolutionaries at the grass roots as well," Todd insisted, pointing out that a good first step would be to register one's interest in getting ADSL by using BT's broadband pre-registration scheme.
[July 9, 2003, 15:36]
Broadband In A Box To Hit The Shops
News Costing £84.99, the package will contain an ADSL modem, filters and Freeserve registration software. Freeserve is moving its battle with rival Internet Service Provider BTopenworld onto the high street next week, as it begins selling broadband...
[April 18, 2002, 17:43]
Two-millionth Broadband Customer For BT
Talkback Our village in rural NE Scotland has just hit its Broadband Registration target. The only provider that helped us was BT. None of the others came anywhere near us. Why on earth should we now give them our business.
[February 23, 2004, 8:54]
Broadband Campaign Site Eclipses Rivals
News Like several other campaigning Web sites, wewantbroadband.co.uk is partly based on BT's broadband registration scheme. Eclipse Internet has launched an online broadband campaign site that allows people to flag up their interest in getting a wide...
[January 30, 2003, 16:41]
BT Sidesteps Broadband Trigger Targets
News Today BT announced plans to make available ADSL from another 1,128 exchanges by mid-2005, without waiting for registration triggers to be hit. A BT spokesman said: "Waiting for people in an area to hit the registration target was not a very joined...
[April 28, 2004, 9:55]
