Just a few key dates (mostly as reminders to me) regarding Internet History
to adsl
Probably of no interest to anyone else .
(so excuse the poor formatting).
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| 15-07-08 |
WBC adsl2+ |
ADSL 2+ live roll out. |
| 23-08-07 |
Disconnection fee |
£39.66 disonnection fee reduced to £5.76 inc VAT |
| May 2007 |
BTw pricing changes |
At long last BTw make a reduction for port costs and central pipe charges.
Connection fee is reduced to £40.96, but a nasty cessation charge of £39.66 is brought in for the first time :( |
| 18 May 2006 |
Maxdsl problems |
Maxdsl bulk upgrades suspended http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/19/bt_max/ |
| 31 Mar 2006 |
Max dsl Roll out |
Most exchanges are maxdsl ready for todays
rollout. |
| 09 Nov 2005 |
adsl2+ |
UK Online announced up to 22Mbps
ADSL2+ service for £29.99 pm |
| 17 Oct 2005 |
BT Contention ratio removed. |
BT remove all references of 20:1 and 50:1 from
their products, replacing it with congestion priority. |
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| 18 Jan 2005 |
Home 2000 |
BT Home 2000 product to go live. |
| 29 Nov 2004 |
Home 2000 |
BT Wholesale Home 2000 trial
PN offered at £39.99 2Mb 20:1 Jun 2004. |
| 06 Sep 2004 |
Following the MK ext reach trials. |
The 0.5Mbps test limit abolished
1Mbps service is to have its limit raised from 41dB to
60dB.
http://www.bb4mk.org/bt_questions_August.htm |
| 03 Aug 2004 |
Home 250 |
BT IPStream Home 250 Introduced |
| 02 Aug 2004 |
Migration Process |
MACs go live. |
| April 2004 |
Caps - Wanadoo |
Wanadoo rebrand Freeseve accounts with caps.
1Mb £34.99 30GB. 512k £24.99 15GB. |
| Mar 2004 |
Capped prod -BT |
BT introduce 512kb service 1GB for £19.99 |
| Mar 2004 |
Caps - Tiscali |
Tiscali customers find they are being capped/throttled.
The ISP which advertises unlimited would seem to be throttling
users that do in excess of around 20GB pm. |
| Feb 2004 |
Caps - BT |
BT introduce advisory 30GB
cap on 512 + 1Mb
products |
| Feb 2004 |
Caps -NTL |
Further to their announcement in 2003, NTL
contact their heavier users.
"reduce the downstream bandwidth utilised through your cable modem
to no more than 1GB per day" |
| Jan 2004 |
Caps - BT |
BT announce plans to introduce 1GB per day |
| 08 Dec 2003 |
Caps - Virgin |
1GB per day max 5GB per week.
"The problem is that about 1% of Virgin customers
are using 40% of the peak bandwidth". |
| Dec 2003 |
1Mb - Contention |
1Mb users see contention effects. |
| 11 Sep 2003 |
Extended reach v1 |
End user distance from the exchange increased
from 5.5 to 6km for rate adaptive services. |
| 06 Oct 2003 |
1Mb adsl |
32.99pm 1Mb 50:1 trials |
| 18 Aug 2003 |
1Mb - Home |
BTw announce the introduction of a 1Mb service
for home users |
| May/June |
Contention |
:( |
| 07 May 2003 |
Wed |
Finally adsl is activated yay :) |
| 2003 |
Bank Holiday w/e |
No chance of router arriving :( |
| 02 May 2003 |
Friday 1.30pm |
Phone goes dead for nearly an hour
Blah Im sure Im activated but havent got my router to check |
| 30 Apr 2003 |
Exchange Activated |
\o/ |
| Feb 08 2003 |
Caps -NTL |
NTL introduces a 1GB/day limit on their broadband service offering |
| Jan/Feb 2003 |
Exchange Trigger reached |
440/400 by 14th of February 2003 |
| Nov 2002 |
BT Anytime is restricted |
When the new Anytime
and Surftime deals start users will be allocated 50 bonus hours |
| Oct 2002 |
BT Pushing adsl |
It costs £29.99
a month and £150 to set up |
| 3 October, 2002 |
BT to restrict dial up |
£15.99 a month
for the Anytime service is
now being cut to 150 hours
£6.99 a month
Surftime deal being
cut to 120 hours |
| 1 July 2002 |
New ADSL checker released |
Pre-registration scheme which includes details of a trigger level.
For those users who can't get ADSL due to not having an enabled
exchange, they will now be told the trigger level if one has been
set for the exchange. Generally the trigger level is between 200
and 500 pre-orders |
| 13 June 2002 |
Oftel says UK broadband is cheap! |
UK broadband prices are below those of most other European countries.
UK Consumer prices are on average lower than in countries such
as France and Germany and UK business prices are Europe's best. |
| 7th May 2002 |
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BT plans to upgrade 100 more exchanges over the coming month
allowing ADSL services to be rolled out to more than fifty further
cities and towns in the UK. |
| 14 Dec 2001 |
Announcement |
Wires only trials commence. |
| 28 Sept 2001 |
Wires Only Installation |
BTw announce they are to introduce a self install
version of adsl which uses microfilters. |
| 27 July 2001 |
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BTwholesale have 940 exchanges enabled for DSL |
| 30 May 2001 |
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81% of people using the internet still connect using a standard
fixed phone line via Dialup
8% use BTHighway or ISDN
5% Digital TV, 4% Mobile phone / device, 7% other (6% of that supposedly
cable modem-
0.6% of people using the internet in the UK are thought to connect
through an ADSL line. |
| 24 January, 2001 |
Freeserve prepares
to relaunch its unmetered internet |
In November, Freeserve
ejected customers that it claimed had been abusing its unmetered
service. By the
autumn, the casualties, including LineOne and WorldOnline, were
mounting. |
| 26 April, 2000, |
BT is launching a new broadband service |
The UK is still far behind the United States, where ADSL was
introduced in 1998.
Among UK telecom operators, only Telewest has already launched
its broadband service Called Blueyonder, it is currently available
only in cable households in south-east England. It charges £50
a month.
The BT service will cost £39.99 a month for consumers,
with an installation fee of £150.
Businesses wanting a single use connection will have to pay VAT
on top of those prices.
Multi-user business deals will cost £99.99 a month with
a £260 installation charge - both prices are exclusive
of VAT.
Initial speeds will be up to 512 kilobits per second (kbps),
but BT hopes to upgrade to 1 or 2 megabits per second (mbps)
by the autumn. |
| 29 February, 2000 |
BT Freecall launched |
a flat rate of £9.99 a month.
6 p.m. till midnight and all weekends |
| 30 November, 1999 |
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Oftel, has told BT that it will have to allow other telephone
companies access to its local phone lines into homes by July 2001...
to speed up the introduction of broadband |
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Remember X-Stream? |
| July 30, 1999 |
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ADSL trial in West London |
| July 29, 1999 |
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BT's key announcement for consumers on Thursday was on pricing.
It revealed it would be selling ADSL at wholesale prices to Internet
Service Providers (ISPs) of £40 to £150 a month, |
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