Re: UKNM: ADSL

[Nigell Boulton]

here is the message from nildram



Latest ADSL News From Nildram


The BT trial of ADSL is apparently now underway. This trial was

unfortunately

severely restricted to only 5,000 consumers nationwide. Wholesale pricing

has

also been published, and for the basic service, which provides a 512kbps

download speed and 256kbps upload speed, with a contention ratio of 20:1

(i.e.

20 other users will be competing with you for that bandwidth), the pricing

works

out as follows:


Installation: �260 + VAT

Annual Rental: �1065 + VAT


In addition to these charges, any ISP providing the service will have to pay

for

a connection to BT to deliver the data inwards. At its cheapest, this will

work

out at an additional �50 per annum, and at its most expensive, �745 per

annum

(this all depends on volume). On top of that, we then have to deliver your

data

across the Internet and make a charge for that.


You can probably see from these figures that unless BT does some drastic

price

cutting, we are still a long way off from the �40/month figures that the

press

like to dream about. More like �150 - �200 a month, we suspect.


Nildram fully intends to offer this service just as soon as we are able.

However,

we don't expect the BT rollout to start until March 2000, and then it will

be a

fairly gradual process. After all, BT don't want to stop the tills ringing

from

the sound of all those dial-up call minutes that are being generated every

day

until they are really forced to do so, one way or the other.


More news as and when we have it!


Nildram Ltd

www.nildram.net


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Sent: Monday, November 22, 1999 3:56 PM

Subject: UKNM: ADSL



 > What's the general opinion on ADSL?



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