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BT's 8Mbps Broadband Out Now?
News A UK company claims to have launched an 8Mbps broadband service based on BT's IPStream Max, two months before BT plans to launch this service itself. A press release also stated that the service was being released by Freedom2surf "following its...
[January 20, 2006, 16:40]
Business Wins With BT Broadband Price Cuts
News From 1 May the cost of IPStream Office 500, BT Wholesale's entry-level broadband package that gives business users a 500Kbps connection, will fall from £40 per month to £18 per month. IPStream Office 1000 will drop from £60 per month to £28 per...
[April 3, 2003, 11:36]
BT To Begin Public Trial Of 256Kbps ADSL
News The telco will begin testing a wholesale 256 kilobits-per-second ADSL broadband product called IPStream Home 250 next month, in a trial involving at least 10 Internet service providers and 200 end users.
[June 22, 2004, 17:35]
BT Hits ISPs With Broadband Price Hikes
News The telco is increasing the cost of its IPStream Office range by up to 32 percent. In the past, the telco has been accused of executing "margin squeezes" by charging less for IPStream than for Datastream -- another range of wholesale broadband...
[August 3, 2004, 14:35]
Business Broadband Providers Cut Prices
News From September BT will slash £5 per month off the cost of its IPStream broadband products, which other ISPs buy from the BT wholesale division and then sell to business customers. This represents a cut of up to seven percent for the cheapest...
[August 8, 2001, 17:30]
Ray Of Hope For Broadband ISPs
News The telco confirmed on Monday that it has revised its calculations, and will now not be upping the cost of its IPStream Office and S range by the 30 percent initially quoted. As reported back in August, BT's shock decision to raise its high-end...
[October 4, 2004, 16:45]
Broadband Migration Charges Chopped
News Ofcom said on Wednesday that BT should cut the price that it charges rival telcos to move customers from its standard IPStream broadband range to Datastream, which gives rival carriers greater control over customising their broadband offerings.
[April 28, 2004, 16:00]
ISPs To Meet Ofcom Over BT Broadband Price Hikes
News Several of ISPA's members are understood to be furious about the price rises, which affect BT's IPStream Office and S range. The regulator is expected to rule later this summer that IPStream products have been too cheap relative to Datastream -- a...
[August 18, 2004, 17:55]
Broadband Prices To Fall In Early 2003
News For the period between 10 January and 31 March, the connection charge for BT IPStream Home and BT IPStream Office -- both self-installation products -- will be cut from £50 to £25. The connection charge for business ADSL products in the BT IPStream...
[December 13, 2002, 13:48]
BT Starts Trialling 2Mbps Broadband
News However, the service -- called IPStream 2000 -- will not be available to every home in the UK. The trial of IPStream 2000 will begin on 29 November and run for at least eight weeks. Although technical details of this set-top box aren't available...
[November 2, 2004, 13:59]
Faster Broadband Divide Will Hit Millions
News BT Wholesale announced earlier this week that it will begin a six-week trial of a 1Mbps ADSL product called IPStream Home1000 in October. IPStream Home1000 will only work on a phone line that is no longer than 3.5km.
[August 28, 2003, 13:10]
ISPs Unveil Business Broadband Savings
News From 1 May, BT will cut the cost of its entry-level IPStream Office 500 product from £40 to £18 per month, the midrange IPStream Office 1000 from £60 to £28 per month, and the top-end IPStream Office 2000 from £80 to £38 per month (all prices in...
[April 7, 2003, 16:12]
Price War Looming Over Faster ADSL
News This product, called IPStream Home1000, will be resold by ISPs to individual customers. Freedom2Surf announced on Thursday that the introduction of IPStream Home1000 will enable it to cut the cost of its 1Mbps Power User broadband package to £29.99...
[September 4, 2003, 15:15]
ISPs Angry About Broadband Regulation
News Small ISPs will typically resell products from BT's IPStream range. Ofcom forces BT to price IPStream and Datastream at levels where there is effective competition between the two, but ISPA claims this 'margin squeeze test' (MST) isn't working.
[November 16, 2004, 10:45]
Operators Demand Larger Broadband Price Cut
News This was prompted by an Oftel investigation into BT's recent decision to cut the cost of its wholesale broadband products -- which are based on a product range called IPStream -- by up to 50 percent. Operators claimed that BT was acting unfairly by...
[May 8, 2003, 12:41]
Did Ofcom Force BT's Broadband Price Rises?
News The price rises, reported on Tuesday, have been made to BT's IPStream Office and IPStream S range. IPStream products are bought by ISPs that sell broadband to small businesses and power users. Rival telecoms operators have for some time claimed...
[August 5, 2004, 16:15]
Broadband Alliance Takes Aim At BT
News Several DataStream customers have recently claimed that BT is acting unfairly by charging excessively for Datastream, compared to the IPStream products that BT sells directly to ISPs. This row kicked off when BT made significant reductions in the...
[October 20, 2003, 15:30]
Row Heats Up Over BT Broadband Price Rises
News As previously reported, BT announced last week that it was raising the cost of several of its wholesale business broadband packages -- known as IPStream -- by as much as 30 percent. The regulator is expected to rule later this summer that IPStream...
[August 12, 2004, 15:15]
Business Users Benefit From Broadband Cuts
News The price that ISPs pay BT for the self-installation entry-level IPStream Office 500 product, which offers speeds of up to 500kbps, will fall from £60 per month to £40 per month. The monthly cost of the IPStream Office 1000 and IPStream Office 2000...
[February 26, 2002, 16:13]
BT Caves In Over Broadband Price Cut Row
News These products -- the IPStream range -- operate only across BT Wholesale's network and are bought by Internet service providers and resold to end users. An Oftel source confirmed that the regulator was reluctant to force BT to cancel the IPStream...
[May 7, 2003, 16:52]
