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| UK to get 24Meg broadband in October |
| Sunday, July 24, 2005 at 09:38 by Rich Kavanagh |
Internet service provider Be is on the verge of launching 24 meg broadband - the fastest in the UK and triple the speed of the current leading competitor.
Using ADSL2+ technology that doubles the download bandwidth, together with LLU (Local Loop Unbundling) that fast-tracks the connection from the telephone exchange to the customer premises, this revolutionary overhaul of the broadband market is a first for the UK.
Be will rollout the new service from London in the autumn. They hope to cover 64% of the population within a year.
For Boris Ivanovic, Executive Director of Be, this will be the second time he has broken the broadband speed record. In April 2001, he purchased Sweden's fledging ISP BoStream Broadband and launched 26 meg broadband - growing its customer base dramatically from 2,000 to 100,000, and from a $1m to $55m revenue, in just three years.
Boris Ivanovic told us,
"The deregulation of the market makes this a very exciting time for the UK and Be is here to make the most of it, offering customers the full capability of ADSL2+ from launch. There is no reason to drag out the increase in speed and launch in steps of 2 meg or 8 meg when the capability is there to offer the maximum speeds available - which is what Be is all about."
Be has the benefit of building a completely new network based on the latest technologies, allowing it to provide a faster product than anyone else in the UK. The company is able to deliver its dramatic speed increase due to Ethernet back-hauling and aggregation.
No prices have been confirmed yet, but industry analysts imagine the 24Meg service will cost around £34.99 a month.
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| wohoo! something at last for london to be happy about in recent weeks! :) |
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| 24mb, yeah right! ISPs usually have only 2 or 3 655mbit pipes onto their tier providers. You'll end up with massive contention ratios. You may have a high speed service, but your going to have quality and reliability issues
£35 a month, ISDN and ADSL were nowhere near that cheap when they were launched. |
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| So wait 2 years before getting it. The price may come down, they'll have fixed the bugs and capacity issues and the great leap forward will have been made.
They have to start somewhere. Better to get in first and risk the competition poaching the technology than sit on the old mits and wait for someone else to do it. Good on 'em. |
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| As a customer facing officer for government in Wales this is an exciting prospect always assuming that BE has Wales within its sights. Not so much for the quantitiy but to attract the large numbers of people who wish for a better work life balance by moving their operations to Wales. |
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| wales ? why on earth would you need broadband in wales. ph00l |
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| wrong, its on Be's website now, £20 per month for life.
sweet deal, iv already signed up :D |
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| would this mean that porn will be much faster to download???? like extra fast movies and pictures,,,,,? |
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