[Gllug] BT "21st century network"

[Pete Stean]

The big BT project, 21CN, is a strategy based around laying new (or indeed
lighting up existing) fibre:

http://www.btplc.com/21CN/Whatis21CN/BTsstrategyandkeyobjectives/index.htm

Not sure what the implications are for the home consumer yet though...

Pete


On 10/09/2007, Chris Bell <chrisbell at overview.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>   I have just been looking for any new information at the www.btplc.com
> website. It tells me very little apart from their plan to upgrade my phone
> line within the next 12 months. It says it should not stop my current
> analogue phones from working, but not whether I will soon be able to use
> digital-only phones and should avoid the purchase of analogue equipment.
>   I could set up an Asterisk system, but should I wait for a new series of
> line interface cards or just investigate VOIP? I like the idea that my
> phone
> will still work after a total local power loss, but that seems to be a
> lower
> priority with the advent of mobile phones (but try getting a mobile phone
> to
> connect when there is a large local public event or a full emergency such
> as
> local flooding. I have been to previous events such as the Open Golf where
> a
> temporary mobile mast was used to connect many thousands of mobile phones
> to
> the very few outgoing lines).
>
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