Faster services from Talk Talk !

Gosh - Wansford has some new equipment.

Talk Talk have installed their own equipment in the BT exchange at Wansford, so they can now supply ADSL2+ services to our area. They may not have the best reputation, and we all hate call centres, but T-T can now offer line rental with evening & weekend calls and broadband for under £20 per month.

ADSL2+ will mean speed increases to over 8M for most Wansford and Yarwell residents. Further out you may also gain a few hundred kbits/s which might be significant in Wittering.

Oundle goes faster

Talk Talk have installed their own equipment in the Oundle telephone exchange, bringing the residents of Oundle cheaper and faster services.

Their ADSL2+ service predicts for a house near the Co-Op:  Your estimated speed range is between 5.4 and 12.7meg 


Wansford exchange appears as "scheduled" on their exchange checking tool, so perhaps they have changed their mind ? 

Possible price reductions

OFCOM have announced a price cap on the charges BT Wholesale can make to retail ISPs on Market 1 exchanges like Wansford. The cap applies to a product called "IPStream Connect" which is currently used by six ISPs - BT, Sky, Talk Talk, Virgin, Orange and Entanet.

The price cap should reduce wholesale costs by about 11% below inflation but whether we see that as lower retail prices, more capacity for peak times or more profit for the ISPs remains to be seen.

An unintended consequence is that lower prices from BT Wholesale make it less attractive for other providers to install equipment. Talk Talk for example said this measure would reduce their expansion plans. On the other hand it may create an incentive for BT to introduce faster ADSL2+ services which are free of this price cap.