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To: semi_infinite who wrote (1792)	5/26/1999 1:38:00 AM
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Some pieces of the puzzle falling into place for BT's ADSL deployment. I wonder what the split will be between Fujitsu and Alcatel. Articles from electronicsweekly.co.uk (1/99 and 5/99) < ADSL starts to make an impression Richard Wilson UK telephone operators are already adding support in their networks for asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) technology, which has the potential to provide data rates of 2Mbit/s and higher direct to home PCs using a connection no more sophisticated than an existing telephone line. Kingston Communications has launched one the the UK's first high speed Internet services using ADSL technology. It hopes the service, called Kingston Ultra, will prove attractive to home Web browsers and more demanding small business users. The Hull telephone operator has only recently completed £4m investment in network infrastructure to let it support ADSL. The Kingston Group is planning to provide digital broadcast television over ADSL lines following a trial involving 250 homes in Hull. Pictured is Kingston Internet general manager Anita Pace. BT is using ADSL broadband access systems supplied by Alcatel, Fujitsu and Westell in an interactive telephone services trial in London. This ends a four-year wait for technology previously tested by BT in Colchester in 1994. BT forced into U-turn on broadband acces BT under pressure from regulators for network access; 1999 make or break on ADSL. David Manners BT is being forced into a major U-turn on broadband access to the network and is now expected to offer asymmetric digital subscriber line services (ADSL) nationally in July or August. Main rival Cable and Wireless expects BT to try and beat it to the punch when it offers its own cable modem service across its network from October. "BT is under pressure from regulators who may insist on unbundling the local loop, allowing other operators access to the network, and it's under pressure from cable operators who are preparing cable modem roll-outs," said Richard Medcalf of Cambridge-based telecommunications consultants Analysys. "There's a general feeling that 1999 is the year BT has to do something on ADSL - to use it or lose it." Equipment manufacturers confirm that BT has placed substantial orders for ADSL technology. BT is remaining silent about its intentions but does not deny plans for a summer roll-out. BT's official comment is that it is still 'in trials' of ADSL. BT started ADSL trials in 1994. Cable and Wireless is planning its cable modem introduction on the assumption that BT will try and pre-empt its cable modem launch by the announcement of an ADSL service in July. In the US, regulators had to force telecommunications operators to adopt ADSL by allowing other operators access to the network to provide ADSL services. Traditional network operators were so slow off the mark that cable modems have now taken most of the US market for local broadband access. The reason for the reluctance of network operators to offer ADSL to consumers is that it will provide the same level of service as that for which they can charge businesses tens of thousands of pounds a year in leased lines. Business users will naturally switch to ADSL. Microsoft's recent moves to invest heavily in all three of the UK's biggest cable operators, Telewest, NTL and Cable and Wireless, is also focusing BT's thinking. >