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BT announces plans for higher speed
Broadband nationwide (14/10/05)
BT today announced the next trial
phase for its ADSL broadband Max service, which will deliver downstream line
speeds of up to 8 Mbit/s. Commencing at the end of November, the trial will lay
the foundation for the intended commercial launch of higher speed broadband
services across the UK by Spring 2006.
Cameron Rejali, managing
director, products and strategy, BT Wholesale said: “The market trial
represents a significant step forward in the development of our higher speed
broadband products. Our highly successful technical trials generated positive
feedback and high demand from both service providers and end-customers involved
in the trial.
“This trial phase is essential to ensure our higher
speed broadband products and systems meet the reliability standards that
service providers and end users expect. This testing is essential given BT
intends to roll out services of up to 8Mb across the whole of the UK. BT is
committed to ensuring that everyone benefits from the broadband revolution
whether they live in valleys, villages or city centres.”
Higher
speed broadband services will allow people to run more bandwidth hungry
applications, including video, gaming and music downloads at the same time, as
well as email and surfing the web.
Following successful technical
trials of the service in London and the Strathclyde region of Scotland, the
wider market trial phase will include an initial 25 exchanges, rising to 53
exchanges as the trial progresses. The selected trial exchanges will be located
in Greater London, Cornwall, Strathclyde, Northern Ireland and South Glamorgan.
The higher speed broadband trial will initially be available to 50,000
end users. Depending on the successful progress of the trial, BT aims to extend
the availability of the trial to up to 150,000 end users, which could see
additional trial exchanges enabled for higher speed broadband.
The
trial will allow participating service providers to offer end-customers the
fastest broadband service their line can reliably support with rate-adaptive
downstream line speeds of up to 8 Mbit/s. BT intends to provide these services
nationwide from all broadband enabled exchanges in the UK following the
successful conclusion of the trials.
The market trial will apply to BT
Wholesale’s BT Datastream service and BT IPstream service, provided the
customer is on either capacity or usage based charging. The purpose of the
market trial is to allow BT Wholesale and participating service providers to
understand the technical stability of ADSL Max lines and become familiarised
with the ordering, billing and service aspects of the service prior to
commercial launch.
Service providers will shortly be invited by BT
Wholesale to formally take part in the trial. Individual customer lines for the
trial will be selected by service providers and the standard procedure for
ordering ADSL broadband services from BT Wholesale will apply.
Higher
speed broadband from BT Wholesale will deliver greater control and flexibility
to service providers which will allow them to differentiate their products to
reduce customer churn and attract new broadband subscribers.
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