BT Broadband

BT Broadband is a broadband service offered by BT Consumer; a division of BT Group in the United Kingdom. It was formerly known as BT Total Broadband,^[1] BT Yahoo! Broadband and BT Openworld. With the introduction of BT Infinity, the Broadband package now refers to the legacy ADSL broadband products, such as ADSL Max and ADSL2+.

BT Home Hub

The BT Home Hub is a wireless Internet router from BT. It is based on the IEEE 802.11g (WiFi) standard and also supports IEEE 802.11b devices. It is significant as it marks BTs departure away from traditional telecommunications services and towards Internet and media products. It supports VoIP Internet calls and is compatible with existing DECT handsets. It works with the existing BT Fusion service and works with the BT Vision video on demand service.^[2] The device connects to the Internet using a standard ADSL connection. It will be able to support the WBC products using ADSL2+ (up to 24Mb) when BT Wholesale launches them in April 2008. BT launched a new look Home Hub in October 2007 with an enhanced wireless footprint. In July 2008 the Home Hub was relaunched with a new smaller design, Draft-N wireless, additional connections and a new user interface, unlike the previous replacement the new Home Hub was given a .0 release making it the Home Hub 2.0.

BT Infinity

In January 2010 BT launched a new fibre-optic product called BT Infinity. 4 million homes in the UK are covered by this service. Most homes will get FTTC service and have up to 40Mbit/s broadband, those with FTTP will get 100Mbit/s and a 20GB monthly usage allowance, with an unlimited package also offered. BT have since rolled out Infinity 2 offering up to 79Mbit/s download and 19 Mbit/s upload with an unlimited package. Infinity customers are allowed to upgrade to Infinity 2, but must restart their 18 Month contract.^[3]

Virgin Media offer an up to 100Mb service although, as some commentators have noted,^[4] since both are using FTTC the difference in speeds consumers actually achieve is likely to be negligible.

See also

• BT Group
• BT Infinity
• BT TV

References

BT Group Divisions and subsidiaries Current BT Business BT Consumer BT Global Services BT Wholesale BT Research BT Ireland BT Italia EE dabs.com Openreach Plusnet Former Madasafish (merged into Plusnet) Hibu (formerly Yell Group) Manx Telecom O2 (Germany) O2 (Ireland) O2 (United Kingdom) Ribbit Telecomsoft Telfort Products and services Current BT Broadband BT Infinity BT Mobile BT TV BT Sport BT Sport ESPN BT Wi-fi BT MyDonate BT Home Hub BT Voyager ADSL Max Defunct Telecom Gold Buildings and facilities Current Adastral Park BT Centre BT Tower London BT Tower Birmingham Stokenchurch BT Tower BT Tower Swansea Charwelton BT Tower Goonhilly Cornwall Guardian Exchange Manchester Heaton Park BT Tower National Network Management Centre Peterborough transmitting station Purdown BT Tower Pye Green BT Tower Stadium House, Cardiff Sutton Common BT Tower Tinshill BT Tower Tolsford Hill BT Tower Wotton-under-Edge BT Tower Former Anchor telephone exchange Bletchley Park Faraday Building Horwood House Kingsway telephone exchange Post Office Research Station Sheffield Telephone House Microwave network Programmes and standards Current 21CN Digital Access Signalling System 1 Digital Access Signalling System 2 System X System Y Defunct TXE Other BT Archives BT Museum BT Digital Music Awards BT Sport Action Woman Awards BT site engineering code Buzby Concert Connected Earth People Post Office Telecommunications Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition Customer Service System Category Commons