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Old 11-03-2004, 16:15   #1
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BT Anounces new Broadband products
Why can BT anounce new verity of products to cover most customers needs..

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BT today announced a range of cutting-edge products and services that will transform the use of broadband in the UK.

Four innovations, flexible bandwidth, BT Rich Media, BT Communicator with Yahoo! Messenger and BT Remote Management System *will cement BT¹s key position as the broadband battle moves on from access to content, applications and managed services.

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Flexible bandwidth - gives users the power to temporarily boost their broadband speed at the click of a mouse, up to an ultra-fast 2 megabits per second. This will give access to a wealth of premium content, such as DVD-quality streamed videos or online gaming. Users who find they continually need to accelerate their broadband speed, like Broadband Basic customers who constantly exceed their 1Gb limit, can instantly upgrade their service online, allowing them to move seamlessly between BT¹s family of broadband products. Triallists for the flexible bandwidth product will be recruited from today, with the trial scheduled to start next month.
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Re: BT Anounces new Broadband products
Isn't this what NTL are testing in Guildford (boosting up to 3Mbps) ?
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Re: BT Anounces new Broadband products
OK so who forgot to patent it first?
Sounds like the NTL I know, always forgetting stuff like that - even domain names.
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BT Xtreme now?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3502742.stm

Wonder how NTL will react to this announcement now that it is also trialling an identical product. Personally, at a couple of quid a Gig I'd keep away from the turbo button!
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Wonder how NTL will react to this announcement now that it is also trialling an identical product. Personally, at a couple of quid a Gig I'd keep away from the turbo button!
I wonder how long you would get turbo for before it wouldn't be worth staying with BT and moving to an unlimited 2mbit supplier like Bulldog or Silver-mead??
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Flexible bandwidth - gives users the power to temporarily boost their broadband speed at the click of a mouse, up to an ultra-fast 2 megabits per second. This will give access to a wealth of premium content, such as DVD-quality streamed videos or online gaming. Users who find they continually need to accelerate their broadband speed, like Broadband Basic customers who constantly exceed their 1Gb limit, can instantly upgrade their service online, allowing them to move seamlessly between BT¹s family of broadband products. Triallists for the flexible bandwidth product will be recruited from today, with the trial scheduled to start next month.
Just wondering what aspect of being able to increase your download temporarily would interest you? I can see how someone with maybe 512kb would maybe like an increase it to a couple of meg if they had a major service pack to download, but if you have, say a 1Meg + line anyway, what is the attraction then?
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Re: [Merged] BT Announces new Broadband products
With speeds not being guaranteed on anyones service, what happens if you hit the turbo button for a big download and it doesn't get any faster? Do you pay extra for nothing?
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Re: [Merged] BT Announces new Broadband products
Presumably, yes!

I'm wondering if they intend to put the turbo button on at non-peak times as the ntl trial is.
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Re: [Merged] BT Announces new Broadband products
this is stupid, the current infrastructure is fine, the compaines such as BT want to 'cash in' on the growth of broadband, consumers who are not well informed will undoubtdly get sucked in to the marketing of these broadband packages.........
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Re: BT Anounces new Broadband products
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Just wondering what aspect of being able to increase your download temporarily would interest you? I can see how someone with maybe 512kb would maybe like an increase it to a couple of meg if they had a major service pack to download, but if you have, say a 1Meg + line anyway, what is the attraction then?
mybe my 1 meg isn't doing the odd download as fast as it used to like tonight to download redhat9 disc I was given 1hour 57min on the 1 mb downloading from redhats ftp.
With the turbo I could drop down to 600k and for the odd download hit the turbo.
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this is stupid, the current infrastructure is fine, the compaines such as BT want to 'cash in' on the growth of broadband
My guess that it will generate more revenue just hitting the boost button at certain times will probably incur (on the NTL service) an extra charge ontop of the charge for using it.

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consumers who are not well informed will undoubtdly get sucked in to the marketing of these broadband packages.........
This is where NThellworld steps in to keep those that are not well informed, informed
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