BT declares ceasefire in broadband speed wars
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Users don't care about speed, telco claims BT is aiming to push access speed down the broadband agenda as the copper wires into homes swiftly approach their technological limits.â¦
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Goodbye to POTS Dutch telco KPN joins BT by turning off its public switched telephone network (PSTN) in less than three years. Eelco Blok, the CEO of KPN's fixed network, told German magazine WirtsschaftsWoche it will abandon its 100 year-old fixed line network in 2010 in favor of IP telephony.â¦
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Lockdown shuts out pwners BT has sealed a critical security hole in the Home Hub that offered hackers full control of the router, which is in about two million UK homes.â¦
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All reasonable offers considered Consolidation in the broadband sector looks set to continue apace, as Carphone Warehouse and BSkyB fight it out for control of AOL's UK broadband business, according to reports.â¦
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Telecom giant BT has revealed its plans to develop a large wireless broadband network in London
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Cable or Bell. The Supreme Court takes a crack at broadband regulation.
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Mobile phone giant Vodafone Group   confirmed on Monday its plan to enter Britain's  cut-throat fixed-line broadband Internet market via a deal with  the wholesale arm of telecoms firm BT Group .
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The UK's ad watchdog rules over which net connections can be described as full speed broadband.
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UK internet service providers (ISPs) have reacted with dismay to the publication of a direction statement from telecoms regulator Ofcom, which they say leaves BT free to levy high charges on the wholesale digital subscriber line services it leases to them
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Two days left to opt out of new 12-month agreement BT customers with Business PSTN lines will find their contract upgraded to include BT Business Line Divert come Thursday - but will find that upgrade locks them into a 12-month repeating contract unless they opt out before it kicks in.â¦
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Ofcom deregulation plan a goer thanks to unbundling European regulators have backed a move by Ofcom to drop regulations that force BT to offer competitors price-capped wholesale broadband nationwide.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - Ethernet will keep accelerating, speeding up to 100G bps (bits per second) in the next few years, the head of a standards study group said Wednesday. A special study group of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) last Thursday agreed on a target for the next generation of the ubiquitous data networking technology. The 100G-bps version of Ethernet will be 10 times faster than the current fastest type, 10-Gigabit Ethernet. But vendors as well as users represented in the group, including Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories and cable operator Comcast Corp., see a need for that kind of speed down the road, said John D'Ambrosia, chair of the group. It will serve the needs of both enterprises and carriers, he said. Ethernet was introduced more than 30 years ago and became popular as a 10M-bps system for enterprise LANs. Along the way, Fast Ethernet (100M bps), Gigabit Ethernet and 10-Gigabit Ethernet have been added. Because each was standardized, many vendors have been able to compete and prices have been driven down. New Ethernet versions began life aggregating streams of packets from lower-speed connections and, in turn, were later aggregated into fatter pipes that used the latest high speed. Video, high-performance computing and the increasing demands of applications in data centers will require faster connections, said D'Ambrosia, who is also scientist of components technology at high-end Ethernet switch vendor Force10 Networks Inc. The study group was formed in July to decide what speed the IEEE should try to achieve in the next standard. Last Thursday at an IEEE meeting in Dallas, 100G bps achieved the required 75 percent vote within the study group. Other possible speeds were considered, including 40G bps, 80G bps and 120G bps, but none of them garnered enough backing. The group weighed the time and effort required to achieve a speed against how well it would meet the needs that exist when it becomes available, D'Ambrosia said. Between that vote and 100G bps Ethernet hitting the market, the IEEE needs to approve the formation of a working group that will then figure out how to achieve the higher speed. Judging from the development of earlier standards, D'Ambrosia said standard 100G bps Ethernet products are likely to become available in late 2009 or early 2010. The challenges this time will be similar to those in the past, only harder, he said. Among them are heat and power requirements and enabling faster communication among the chips inside networking equipment. Like other steps up in Ethernet speed, it is likely to appear first in gear that uses optical fiber. Getting it to work over copper wires will be harder than ever, D'Ambrosia said, but he wouldn't rule it out. The cycle never ends, he said. "This will never be the last higher speed study group," D'Ambrosia said. "We'll get this done and eventually there will be a push for another speed after this."
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MOBILE phones giant Vodafone is expected to announce this week that it has struck a deal with BT allowing it to sell residential broadband access to its British customers.   BT will supply fixed-line broadband access wholesale to Vodafone, which will then repackage it under its own brand.
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And UWB licences to be axed Ofcom has allowed fixed broadband internet providers to double the power of their signals in a move the UK telecoms regulator says will help bridge the digital divide.â¦
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Mobile phone firm Vodafone is to enter the UK fixed-line broadband market after striking a deal with BT.
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BT has won a reprieve after telecoms regulator Ofcom backed away from demanding the former state telecom monopoly&#39;s break-up, calling instead for it to offer rivals equal access to its network.
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PCCW, the Hong Kong telecoms group, has ruled out a nationwide roll-out of its UK wireless broadband service in the near term in a move that will reduce competition in the market for fast internet access.