RE: ADSL

["Des Gibbons" <des@xxxxxxx>]

BT have delayed ADSL rollout until the autumn, don't hold your breath tho
:(

Prices have not been confirmed yet because of BT's wish that ADSL would go
away, they are delaying as long as possible.

freeserve are another isp in the BT trial (the new BT trial not the old one
that has been going on since 1998!)

Des Gibbons

> -----Original Message-----
> From: stuart@xxxxxxx [mailto:stuart@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 08 April 2000 11:31
> To: des@xxxxxxx; ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] ADSL
>
>
> Since I found aout my exchange is ADSL enabled (woohoo!) I've canceled
by
> Cable & Wireless connection (which I was going to do anyway), and
> I'm going
> back to BT.
>
> I've been scouring ISP's the length and breadth of the country trying
to
> find one that offers or is planning to offer a DSL service, and
> they've all
> come back with the same answer - "No, it'd be too expensive to
> offer". Only
> one of those ISP's actually quoted a price (uklinux.net) at 200+ ukp,
plus
> an "excess bandwidth charge" which they havn't been quoted a
price for.
>
> It seems BT have priced this service, not only out of the common
> man's price
> range, but also out of the ISP's who must offer it, the only 2
> ISP's that I
> know of to offer a DSL service are Freenetname and Demon, but they're
both
> only trials, with no details of what the final price will be.
>
> I seem to remember OFTEL telling BT they must offer the service
> at a rate of
> around 50 ukp a month, or did I just dream that?
>
> Does anyone else know of any ISP's offering DSL at a proper rate,
> or indeed
> has anyone been quoted any prices whatsoever for a DSL service?
>
>
>
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