BT to smash broadband target

BT will this week break through the ten million broadband barrier, smashing
its initial target of five million connections by the end of 2006. That
target, viewed as highly ambitious at the time, was set in April 2002 when
there were fewer than 150,000 DSL connections. Broadband availability at
that time was 66 per cent whereas it is now more than 99.8 per cent.

The ten million wholesale connections are shared between BT Wholesale and
Openreach. BT Wholesale supplies services to more than 8.7 million customers
(via service providers including BT Retail) whilst Openreach supplies more
than 1.3 million lines to customers via local loop unbundlers. Every one of
these ten million connections brings revenues to BT.

Broadband has become the fastest growing consumer product in recent years
vastly outpacing the growth in televisions, CD players, video recorders or
mobile phones. More than 13 million people in the UK (including cable
customers) now use the service, making the UK one of the fastest growing
markets in the G8. The success of Broadband Britain has resulted in the UK
leading Europe in online shopping and ecommerce - a trend that has been
evident over the festive season.

Ben Verwaayen, Chief Executive of BT Group, said: "2007 is beginning with
broadband firmly established at the heart of the UK economy, helping
businesses to compete and enriching people's lives. The UK now has over 200
service providers making it the most competitive broadband market in the
world. That means fantastic choice and value for consumers, and a constant
stream of new and innovative applications."

Broadband over BT's network is fast outpacing broadband over cable. Whereas
three years ago, more than half of all new connections were carried over
cable, that percentage had declined to just 11 per cent for the quarter
ending September 2006 meaning 89 per cent of new connections use BT's
network.
In an intensely competitive environment BT Retail's share of the total
broadband market (including cable) has remained steady at around 24 per
cent. This figure reflects its share of the total market at the end of
September 2006 and is exactly the same as it was one year previously. BT
Retail now has more than three million broadband customers.

Going forward, broadband speeds are set to increase with the roll out of BT's
21st Century Network. This will see the speed of broadband increase across
the UK and not just in the city centres where local loop unbundlers are
focusing their investment. Speeds of up to 24Mb/s will be increasingly
available across the UK from January 2008 although actual speeds will depend
on a variety of factors including distance from the exchange.

From
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Regards
Sunil

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Is that site broken so far as Firefox 2.0 is concerned, or is it just
me? There is some text that is just simply huge on the page, whereas
other text is of normal size. It seems to be the text that is the 'sub
menu' of the links down the LHS.

Anyway - is this 21CN going to mean the eventual replacement of all
copper lines, or just key elements of the network?

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>
> Is that site broken so far as Firefox 2.0 is concerned,
> or is it just me? There is some text that is just simply
> huge on the page, whereas other text is of normal size.
> It seems to be the text that is the 'sub menu' of the
> links down the LHS.

It's ok here, using FF2 on a 17" Dell flatscreen display (not sure of
graphics card without digging into the system..!)

Ivor

Ivor Jones wrote:
>>
>>> From
>>> http://www.btplc.com
>> Is that site broken so far as Firefox 2.0 is concerned,
>> or is it just me? There is some text that is just simply
>> huge on the page, whereas other text is of normal size.
>> It seems to be the text that is the 'sub menu' of the
>> links down the LHS.
>
> It's ok here, using FF2 on a 17" Dell flatscreen display (not sure of
> graphics card without digging into the system..!)

Alright here with FF2 also.

Might be an idea for the OP to shift/refresh the page. It's not unheard
of for browsers to get in a muddle when a page loads and show something
ghastly.

Tx2 wrote:

> Anyway - is this 21CN going to mean the eventual replacement of all
> copper lines, or just key elements of the network?

21CN is a project to replace the core network down to exchange level.
The last mile of copper remains the same. Exchanges are going to
replaced by MSANs - Multi Service Access Nodes, which will supply
service to the end user's premises. Existing voice, broadband and other
services will be supported in the same way they are now - i.e. they
will all operate the same. However once a local exchange has been
migrated to 21CN then end users should be able to purchase new products
which will become available.

More information can be found at http://www.btwholesale.com/

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> 21CN is a project to replace the core network down to exchange level.
> The last mile of copper remains the same. Exchanges are going to
> replaced by MSANs - Multi Service Access Nodes, which will supply
> service to the end user's premises. Existing voice, broadband and other
> services will be supported in the same way they are now - i.e. they
> will all operate the same. However once a local exchange has been
> migrated to 21CN then end users should be able to purchase new products
> which will become available.

....but if the last mile is knackered?

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> It's ok here, using FF2 on a 17" Dell flatscreen display (not sure of
> graphics card without digging into the system

It works fine in IE7, and i doubt it's the card, an ATI X1600, as i
don't get any other sites behaving this way.

I'll put a temp screenshot up so you can see what i mean.
http://www.palmgroves.co.uk/bt_screen.jpg

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> > It's ok here, using FF2 on a 17" Dell flatscreen
> > display (not sure of graphics card without digging into
> > the system
>
> It works fine in IE7, and i doubt it's the card, an ATI
> X1600, as i don't get any other sites behaving this way.
>
> I'll put a temp screenshot up so you can see what i mean.
> http://www.palmgroves.co.uk/bt_screen.jpg

Hmm, that is a strange one. No explanations, I'm afraid. Do let us know if
you figure it out..!

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> > the following...
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> >
> > > It's ok here, using FF2 on a 17" Dell flatscreen
> > > display (not sure of graphics card without digging into
> > > the system
> >
> > It works fine in IE7, and i doubt it's the card, an ATI
> > X1600, as i don't get any other sites behaving this way.
> >
> > I'll put a temp screenshot up so you can see what i mean.
> > http://www.palmgroves.co.uk/bt_screen.jpg
>
> Hmm, that is a strange one. No explanations, I'm afraid. Do let us know if
> you figure it out..!

Yes, it's quite bizarre, but will remain a mystery as I have to say I'm
not going to even try and sort it out!

I thought it was my Firefox resizing the font, but when I press CTRL and
scroll the mouse wheel, the 'big' font stays that size, and the other
text on the page alters as I would expect.

ho hum...

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Tx2 wrote:
> In article <(E-Mail Removed) .com>,
> (E-Mail Removed) thought we might be interested in the
> following...
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>> 21CN is a project to replace the core network down to exchange
>> level.
>> The last mile of copper remains the same. Exchanges are going to
>> replaced by MSANs - Multi Service Access Nodes, which will supply
>> service to the end user's premises. Existing voice, broadband and
>> other services will be supported in the same way they are now -
>> i.e.
>> they will all operate the same. However once a local exchange has
>> been migrated to 21CN then end users should be able to purchase new
>> products which will become available.
>
> ...but if the last mile is knackered?

Shhhhh, they don't believe you even if you can prove it...