Earwig that's tripe, other companies have been using BT's lines 'unbundled' for years, the UKOnline deal is from Easynet who had unbundled BT's exchanges for years before they began to offer residential services under the UKOnline name over their unbundled network.
The change in 1Mbit availability you are alluding to probably came from BT's relaxing of the limits done a few months ago.
Last I checked Bulldog currently max at 4Mbit 'Bulldog 4' apart from business deals, although I can't see any mention of >4Mbit for businesses at the moment either...
http://www.bulldogbroadband.com/residential/ http://www.bulldogbroadband.com/business/
Looks like when Cable and Wireless spread the love outside of London that 8Mbit will have to be awaited for a bit longer dellwear, at the moment BD have taken a step back in speeds, they used to offer 6Mbit but looks as though they don't anymore.
Of course the other minor detail is that you have to be VERY close to your exchange to receive the full 8Mbit service, I can receive it (if my exchange were ever unbundled) and I'm less than 800m (cable distance) away.
Bulldog's capping took a different approach though, they just let their network overload to hell so that 20:1 business line users such as myself ended up with ISDN speeds.
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Or, do like Bulldog do and have 1MBit during the day and 3MBit off-peak.
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Bulldog haven't done any Primetime services for a number of months now - they did however do this for 1 and 2Mbit Datastream users previously, there was a 'Primetime' service which was 512k during 'peak' times, 8am-6pm Mon-Fri, and either 1Mbit or 2Mbit outside of those times, and the Alltime service which was 1 or 2Mbit all the time.
Anyway a tad off topic here, apologies but rebutting.