BT Roll-Out ADSL2+

 

It shows what services are available at your exchange, i.e. if it's ADSL2 enabled, LLU etc.

 

But this is not now magic, we now we haven't got it now.

 

It's what we will get when they roll the NEW service out.

 

This is what we have now.

 

  

Broadband availability overview
ADSL:	Yes
SDSL:	Yes
LLU services:	Yes
Cable:	Yes
Wireless:	No

 

So what's LLU? It doesn't relate to the new service does it? Won't they be tinkering with their bits to enable such lightning speeds?

 

So what does this mean?

 

BT have set a target date of Q2 2008 for the switch to 21CN for the Solihull exchange

 

 

LLU is Local Loop Unbundling. It's when another provider puts equipment in the BT exchange and moves your phone line over to their system. It effectively cuts BT out of the whole thing, and you pay your line rental (if any) to the new provider. A lot of LLU providers offer faster (24Mbps) than you can currently get via a normal "BT" based line (8Mbps).

 

BT are saying they want to start doing ADSL2+, which is what the LLU providers are doing. That'll allow you to get 24Mbps over a "BT" line, instead of going to an LLU provider.

 

21CN is BT's new phone network system which will replace the ancient old one that the country currently has. It's all (?) IP based stuff, I believe a bit like routing calls over VoIP to help cut costs and let the system grow much better. I don't think this is anything to do with the news in the last few days, but a few places seem to have got this new 24Mbps broadband over BT lines confused with the 21CN rollout which is happening over the next few years.

 

 

They say the faster it gets though the less you get, so i probably won't get 24 or even 12.

Probably 8-10 I'd guess.

 

Alan