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BT Cuts Wholesale ADSL Pricing
News BT announced on Friday that it is cutting the price of its wholesale ADSL package to £30 per month, a move that it claims will boost demand for broadband services in the UK. The £5 cut in the price of IPStream 500, BT's wholesale ADSL product, will...
[July 27, 2001, 17:35]
BT Broadband Price Cut 'unlikely' To Benefit Consumers
News BT is expected to announce a cut in the cost of wholesale ADSL as early as this Thursday, but sources suggest that the reduction may not result in significantly lower prices for consumers. According to an insider familiar with the situation, BT...
[April 2, 2003, 18:07]
Unbundling Still Stuck In The Broadband Mire
News BT still faces little serious rivalry in the wholesale ADSL market, despite repeated claims that the UK's broadband market is competitive. But with just 4,600 lines unbundled, it is clear that BT is maintaining an iron grip on the wholesale ADSL...
[June 13, 2003, 15:56]
Thus Announces Broadband Price Cuts
News UK telco Thus has announced it is to cut the cost of its business broadband service following BT's wholesale ADSL price cuts. He said: "While we welcome the wholesale price cuts, it is disappointing that we cannot reduce costs for all our business...
[May 1, 2003, 16:23]
Price War Heats Up Over 1Mbps Broadband
News Broadband provider Bulldog Communications has reacted to BT's decision to launch a wholesale 1Mbps ADSL product by cutting the prices of several of its own high-speed packages. BT is launching its wholesale 1Mbps ADSL product, called IPStream 1000...
[September 12, 2003, 8:45]
BT Doubles Its Money With Broadband Growth
News BT's broadband operations are generating nearly twice as much money as a year ago, thanks to extremely robust take-up of its wholesale ADSL services, but things may not be as rosy on its retail side. BT also confirmed that by mid-November it had...
[November 13, 2003, 16:45]
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 Unimpressed Over Probe Into ADSL Price Cuts
News The regulator is looking into BT Wholesale's decision to install ADSL for £75, rather than the usual cost of £150. In addition to BTopenworld, at least 180 other ISPs buy wholesale ADSL capacity from BT.
[October 22, 2001, 17:25]
Operator Tries To Block BT Broadband Price Cuts
News BT is expected to soon announce significant cuts in the price of its wholesale ADSL product. Any moves by BT to cut the price of its wholesale broadband service will be fiercely opposed by other companies who claim it is trying to force them out of...
[February 7, 2002, 11:03]
BT Set To Cut Broadband Prices
News According to some reports, the cost of BT's wholesale ADSL product could have halved by this summer -- a move that could encourage millions of British Web users to upgrade to broadband. The wholesale ADSL package that ISPs buy from BT costs £30 per...
[February 4, 2002, 9:44]
Broadband Prices To Fall In Early 2003
News The decision to halve the connection charges in these ADSL products was welcomed by Zen Internet, which resells BT Wholesale's range of broadband services. Bulldog Communications, a competitor of BT Wholesale, announced details of a new ADSL...
[December 13, 2002, 13:48]
Plug-and-play Broadband Due In January
News The cost of broadband Internet packages could drop early next year, after BT Wholesale announced today (Wednesday) that it is aiming to start selling self-installation ADSL equipment by January 2002. Although BT Wholesale has developed the product...
[October 24, 2001, 16:56]
1Mbps ADSL Gets Lift-off
News Almost two-thirds of the UK population now have the option of getting one-megabit-per-second broadband down their phone line, after BT confirmed on Wednesday that it will launch a faster wholesale ADSL product.
[October 22, 2003, 16:05]
Faster Broadband A Hit For Bulldog
News The company revealed on Tuesday that it expects to hit its targets for its Primetime range -- which was launched back in mid-December 2002 and is faster than BT Wholesale's consumer ADSL product. Unlike many broadband ISPs, which simply resell BT...
[February 11, 2003, 16:31]
BT Approves DIY Broadband Christmas Present
News Consumers will be able to sign up for self-installation ADSL services early in the New Year, BT Wholesale confirmed on Tuesday. BT said the wholesale product will be available from 15 January, and it is also expected to be available to consumers...
[December 18, 2001, 12:37]
Openworld Claims Success After Broadband Price Cut
News BT Wholesale's decision to drop the installation cost of ADSL and extend the range of the technology appears to have boosted the take-up of high-speed Internet access in the UK. BT Wholesale's Rebecca Webster said last month that broadband demand...
[November 8, 2001, 14:49]
Telewest To Fight BT With Faster Broadband
News Telewest has claimed it is happy that BT has cut its wholesale broadband prices, even though this move will bring ADSL products much closer to the cost of cable broadband. The days of home users paying retail prices of £40 per month for ADSL will...
[March 1, 2002, 10:29]
Bulldog Savages BT Over 'dirty Tricks'
News Bulldog wants to compete directly with BT Wholesale by selling ADSL to Internet service providers. It is delighted by Oftel's decision last week to approve co-mingling -- where rival ADSL wholesale providers place their equipment in the same part...
[October 15, 2001, 14:32]
ISPs Unveil Business Broadband Savings
News Eclipse Internet, Zen Internet, Plusnet and V21 are among the first to announce how they will respond to BT's decision to slash the cost of its wholesale business ADSL products by over 50 percent. Rival network operator Thus has complained to Oftel...
[April 7, 2003, 16:12]
DSL Max May Save BT's Broadband Blushes
News According to analysts at Ovum, BT will begin trialling a wholesale version of ADSL broadband known as DSL Max in September. There will also be two 'DataStream' versions, for telcos who want to offer their own customised versions of BT's wholesale...
[August 30, 2005, 18:05]
