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Three more local exchanges to get ADSL
News BT said on Monday that three more local exchanges will join its broadband network by February 2003 -- taking to 17 the number of exchanges that have been promised ADSL thanks to local interest. This takes to 17 the number of exchanges that will now...
[November 11, 2002, 16:10]
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. The telco confirmed on Tuesday that over the last two weeks 15 local exchanges have hit...
[January 14, 2003, 13:00]
BT to double SDSL coverage
News BT is planning to double the coverage of its SDSL network over the next few months by upgrading another 150 local exchanges. ISPs can currently offer SDSL products from 150 local exchanges, which are mainly based in major cities such as London and...
[May 6, 2004, 17:15]
Northern Ireland hits broadband saturation
News Northern Ireland has become the first region after London to have all its local telephone exchanges broadband-enabled. BT announced on Thursday that every one of the 191 local exchanges in Northern Ireland now offer high-speed ADSL connectivity to...
[February 25, 2005, 10:50]
BT slashes hundreds of broadband trigger levels
News For 22 of these local exchanges, the new trigger levels are now actually lower than the amount of interest already registered by local people, so they have now been added to BT's ADSL build programme and should be upgraded in around three months...
[January 24, 2003, 11:35]
BT fixes broadband glitch
News BT believes it has fixed a technical problem 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 fault had been caused by a problem with one type...
[December 23, 2002, 11:15]
Hundreds of exchanges fail BT trigger test
News BT said this week that it cannot set achievable broadband trigger 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 calculated that there...
[October 16, 2003, 15:50]
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. ADSL should be available from each of the local exchanges by the end of May at the latest.
[February 24, 2003, 16:12]
Furious BT loses battle over local exchange access
News Industry watchdog Oftel ruled on Thursday that rival operators can have unescorted access to BT's local exchanges to access their equipment, despite strong objections from the telco. BT complained that it would be a security risk if staff from...
[December 13, 2001, 17:25]
BT to tap community spirit in rural broadband push
News BT is ready to launch a Web-based system that will allow consumers whose local telephone exchanges are not ADSL-enabled to register their demand for broadband. The telco is thought to have identified 400 local exchanges where it will promise to...
[June 17, 2002, 16:11]
BT lays the path for universal broadband
News BT announced on Monday that it has set trigger levels for thousands more local exchanges, a move that makes universal broadband coverage within Britain more achievable. BT's decision is a major about-face -- it has previously insisted that these...
[November 17, 2003, 10:10]
Select committee told that BT must lose local loop
News Britain will never have a truly competitive and successful broadband market as long as BT owns the UK's local telephone exchanges. This can only be avoided, Wallace claimed, if BT is forced to split its phone lines and local exchanges, known as the...
[February 6, 2002, 14:08]
Easynet vows to unbundle more of Britain
News Easynet is planning to start offering its broadband services from a further 80 local telephone exchanges this year, in a drive to continue competing with BT in the wholesale broadband market. LLU forces incumbent telecoms operators -- BT, in the UK...
[January 12, 2004, 16:35]
Oftel speeds up unbundling plans
News Oftel is to bring forward the unbundling of the UK's most popular local telephone exchanges, after a special meeting with BT and other telcos Thursday to tackle a lack of operator interest. Unbundling BT's local exchanges for competition will allow...
[January 18, 2001, 15:34]
BT expands broadband rollout
News BT announced on Monday that it will roll out ADSL to another 100 local exchanges by the end of May. BT also revealed that it is considering upgrading another 500 local exchanges, amid concerns that significant parts of the UK cannot buy an ADSL...
[April 8, 2002, 10:25]
Oftel forces BT to co-mingle for ADSL
News Oftel ruled on Wednesday that BT must accept requests from other operators to install their equipment alongside its own apparatus within local exchanges, in a move that could boost the take-up of broadband Internet services.
[October 11, 2001, 17:45]
Britain gets a new broadband divide
Talkback BT has not given any indication if or when they may upgrade the remaining ~600 local exchanges to ADSL. I am sadly in connected to one of these exchanges - it carries 130 lines and is only 2.3km from a main BT fibre route.
[April 20, 2005, 10:39]
Carphone Warehouse 'eying broadband unbundling'
News Reports on Monday claimed that Carphone Warehouse is planning to invest millions of pounds in installing its own equipment in BT's local exchanges - a process known as local-loop unbundling (LLU). Sky has recently agreed to buy Easynet, which runs...
[October 31, 2005, 17:05]
Cable & Wireless launches broadband assault
News Cable & Wireless has unveiled an ambitious plan to challenge BT by offering its own wholesale broadband services from hundreds of BT's local telephone exchanges. Hewett added that C&W's backbone network passes close to BT local exchanges in many UK...
[September 17, 2004, 17:20]
BT urged to get broadband rollout moving again
News Now that BT has managed to cut the cost of its broadband services, the telco is being urged to upgrade more of its local exchanges so that ADSL will be available to a greater percentage of the UK population.
[April 4, 2002, 14:48]
