| Posted: Thursday 2nd March 2006 by
Paul |
BT today confirmed the launch date for ADSL Max products.
This will allow people to obtain line rates of up to 8Mbit/s, enabling them to get more out of their broadband connection. The ADSL broadband speed that can be supported on an individual line is governed by a wide range of physical factors.
BT estimates that 78 per cent of BT phone lines should support broadband at line rates of 4Mbit/s and above, with 6Mbit/s and above available to more than 42 per cent. For those living or working close to their local telephone exchange, line rates of up to the maximum 8Mbit/s should be achievable.
BT are upgrading more than 5300 exchanges across the UK to support higher speed broadband services.
It is up to service providers if they regrade the whole customer base or only regrade lines on request from the customer, it may take many months to regrade the lines to ADSL Max services.
There is 2 types of ADSL Max services on offer.
BT ADSL Max and BT ADSL Max Premium. Premium equates to a up to 832kbps upstream rather than 448kbps on the standard Max offering.
And of course you can check the current Max status of your exchange from here.
We will update this information as soon as we get it. |