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BT Drops Home Highway, ISDN Prices
News BT is dropping the installation costs of Home Highway, Business Highway and ISDN services from April 1st, according to documents filed with Oftel. For connections ordered between 1st April and 30th June 1999, the price will be dropped by £50.
[March 29, 1999, 16:20]
Cable Modems—Broadband Highway To The Home
White Papers The authors describe the technology of using cable plants to bring high-speed Internet access into the home. Cable operators are eyeing a huge business opportunity in providing residential customers with high-speed Internet access.
[August 14, 2003, 16:19]
BT To Trial High-speed Lines In UK Homes
News BT Home Highway uses technology supplied by GPT and Ericsson and will offer users a choice of two digital data channels, one analogue voice channel and one digital data channel or just one analogue voice channel.
[November 11, 1997, 9:47]
Rupert Goodwins: "IT's Like This..."
News As most people's limiting factor on Internet access is the phone bill rather than the ISP charges, Home Highway won't give much of an advantage. Provisional indications from within a large ISP are that such a service will be heavily surcharged and...
[August 26, 1998, 13:39]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog More nonsense accrues about BT's Home Highway. You've read the story so far on ZD Net, but there's more -- like the glum engineer who was installing ISDN at a correspondent's house, and who suggested that if Home Highway is anything like as...
[August 29, 1998, 7:03]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News More nonsense accrues about BT's Home Highway. You've read the story so far on ZD Net, but there's more -- like the glum engineer who was installing ISDN at a correspondent's house, and who suggested that if Home Highway is anything like as...
[August 29, 1998, 6:03]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The trouble with the early adopters for the BT DSL trial is that many of them have just early-adopted Home Highway. And the DSL trial doesn't work with Home Highway. Well, they did say ten working days: I've taken to getting down on my knees by the...
[October 24, 1998, 12:31]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News The trouble with the early adopters for the BT DSL trial is that many of them have just early-adopted Home Highway. And the DSL trial doesn't work with Home Highway. Well, they did say ten working days: I've taken to getting down on my knees by the...
[October 24, 1998, 11:31]
ISPs Angry About Broadband Regulation
Talkback isp's should not be surprised that bt treats everyone, not just isp's with arrogant contempt.they have the same attitude to their customers and their staff.some of their staff try their best and deserve better; they should find something more...
[February 7, 2005, 18:56]
BT Pulls The Plug On Midband
News 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 based. Home Highway has been in decline and that’s not surprising as broadband has rolled out to...
[September 6, 2005, 14:15]
Customers Slam BT Over ISDN Charges
News He was horrified to discover he had to shell out £99 in order to convert his Home Highway line back to a standard phone line. ISDN customers wishing to upgrade to ADSL are currently being charged nearly a hundred pounds for the privilege.
[October 31, 2000, 11:40]
BT Service Promises ISDN Speed Over Phone Lines
News Promising ISDN-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 masses. Home Highway has been on trial since the beginning of the year and unlike...
[August 21, 1998, 10:06]
UK Home Internet Usage Levels Off
News Eighty-four percent of connected homes in the country fall into this category, with just 9 percent using BT Highway or another ISDN connection. This is the first time that a dip in British home Internet penetration has been recorded by the telecoms...
[November 6, 2001, 12:36]
SyncVUE Media Synchronizer
Downloads Using Skype as it's communication highway, multiple people around the world can talk about, view and annotate almost any type of image or audio/visual media file in perfect, frame accurate sync. And best of all, you never have to leave home.
[June 10, 2006, 10:31]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News Some good wireless stuff, lots of Home Highway, and IP, IP everywhere. Hi honey, I'm home! The move to Isleham went swimmingly, even if it involved me planting nine trees, tuning three videos, programming six telephones and sitting in the back of a...
[October 10, 1998, 7:33]
Long-range Broadband 'will Not Be Slower'
Talkback BT has offered the solution of Home Highway which costs more per month than Broadband. Grand ideas about a networked system at home so that we can all benefit from the fantastic improved access to the Net.
[February 26, 2004, 9:42]
BT Delays ADSL Again, Freeserve Says It's A 'disgrace'
News BT has dropped the price of Home Highway to make it attractive to the mass market and has promoted it actively. The reason BT is deliberately slowing down the rollout of ADSL, and let's be clear, it is deliberate, because it is protecting its...
[March 3, 2000, 5:52]
Portals In Space
News The corpses that litter Highway 101 in Silicon Valley are a testimony to the gravity of this problem. Their home page with new rich media wonders gets built, and we further allow them to choose which favourite portals appear by default.
[July 29, 2003, 17:45]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Some good wireless stuff, lots of Home Highway, and IP, IP everywhere. Hi honey, I'm home! The move to Isleham went swimmingly, even if it involved me planting nine trees, tuning three videos, programming six telephones and sitting in the back of a...
[October 10, 1998, 8:33]
Tuesday
Blog Flat-rate ISDN, to be sure, but capped and not that different from Home Highway. Tuesday 18/03/2003BT announces Midband, which sounds like a talent contest for Birmingham pop groups but is really the answer for people out of range of broadband.
[March 21, 2003, 18:36]
