RE: UKNM: ADSL

[Giles Turnbull]

tdibble wrote:

> BT Backs Off From Retail ADSL

> By Jeremy Scott-Joynt

> 29 July 1999   

> 

> British Telecommunications plc has decided not to offer its ADSL

> high-speed data service, due to be rolled out in ten of Britain's biggest

> cities by March 2000 at a cost exceeding 250 million pounds (US$405

> million), as a retail package.

> 

> "We will not sell this connection to end users," a BT spokesman said.

> "We'll wholesale it to people who want to bundle the connection with the

> content or the service." BT will, however, offer ADSL itself as part of

> corporate contract packages.


Umm - oh yes they will. It will be called BT Interactive and you can see the

kind of content offering they will have at http://www.btinteractive.com


At least that's what they said at the ADSL press launch last Thursday.


- Giles 

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