I recently moved home, near to Stratford upon Avon, and one of the hopes I had was faster broadband. It wasn’t the only reason for moving of course… After years of doing…
It does what it says on the tin
It seems that some stories on broadband still get broadsheet journalists in a tizzy with the latest being the debate over ‘up to’ or ‘average speed’. Last week a number of people…
BT Openreach lack manpower
I have been staggered at BT’s inability in the last few months to fulfil orders and the lack of publicity surrounding it. It must be the case that BT’s reputation is so…
Pricing needs to change in 2011
One of the biggest issues the industry faces over the coming year is pricing, and notably the 95th Percentile model of billing. For the past few years pricing has reduced to such…
BT outages demonstrate the need for resilience
BT has suffered a number of outages over the past week across the country which has left many without internet connectivity for days on end. It even at one point, last weekend,…
It is not fibre!
I am fed up with the apparent lack of education when it comes to our national broadband networks. Call me old fashioned but I believe in a world where what you sell…
Last to the party….. again.
BT announced with great fanfare the launch of Annex-M services on their ADSL2+ (21CN) platform allowing up to 2.5 Mb/s upstream (from standard 1.3 Mb/s). Whooohooo. Excuse me if you detect a…
Easynet is offloaded
We laughed in the office on the news that Easynet is finally being sold off by Sky as I have been saying it would happen for over a year. Some believed me,…
BT risks everything to become a media company
With the announcement last week that BT will be offering Sky Sports through its BT Vision product, I am convinced, more than ever that BT will focus on becoming a media company…
DSL – end of the line?
There is a lot of talk at the moment about FTTH (Fibre to the Home) and FTTC (Fibre to the Cabinet) replacing DSL in the UK. However I think we are looking…
BT Leads from the top
A customer of ours recently suffered a complete outage when another ISP tried to install a line into their premises. Obviously wasn’t the ISP’s fault, just a bad job by a BT…
Openreach go back to the old days of BT
Interesting development over the past few weeks has been BT Openreach actively telling end users about BT’s new (or old depending on how long you have been waiting for it) 21st Century…
Clouds in the sky
I am one for endorsing the merits of cloud computing, as previous articles will testify, however it does have one very major headache to overcome, the connection to it. As I have…
Not in my street!
Interesting article about BT’s new street cabinets that are being used as part of the FTTC (Fibre To The Cabinet) roll out. Due to the size and cost of the technology that…
Fibre to the cabinet starts to rollout
News from Thinkbroadband on Andrews & Arnold’s (AAISP) recent success installing FTTC into one of their client’s premises. Just goes to show BT are going to really shift their focus over the…