Required: News posters

[James]

We are looking for two people who are "in-the-know" on ADSL and Broadband to be news posters for the site.

As you can see, the main front page does not get updated enough in terms of news stories, so if you have any sources, or don't mind scouring the web for news that may be useful to post on this site, please let me know by replying to this post.

If we have more than two people apply I may increase it to three news posters.

Each news poster will be provided with their own @dslzoneuk.net email address (accessible via POP3, IMAP and webmail)

Thanks

James

[Postie]

News like this?

Vista Going Gold Soon

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Quote:
Microsoft will release just one more build of Windows Vista for testing before the code goes gold, said Brad Goldberg, the general manager for the Windows client business group.

That build will be made available to a limited group of between 50,000 and 100,000 testers in October, and follows the interim Vista build that Microsoft released on Sept. 22.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2022621,00.asp

[James]

Yes, but Broadband related, not general.

[Postie]

News Archives



News - September 28, 2006

Entanet Shortlisted For Channel Award
By: MarkJ @ 12:36 PM - [Submit News | Link | Comments]
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Business ISP Entanet has been named as a finalist for the Specialist Vendor of the Year award in the 2006 Channel Awards and is one of only four contenders for the Service Provider Channel Program in the Channel Network Awards. The awards ceremony takes place at The Dorchester hotel in London on 19th October 2006.

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[Danners]

I'd rather see news just relating to DSL/Cable and the UK infrastructure.

[Danners]

Maybe broadband related developments outside of the UK too

[Postie]

Here you go,

ZDNet UK
September 27, 2006, 17:00 BST


In a bid to clear an 11-week backlog of customers waiting to be transferred for free to Plusnet's 8Mbps Max service, the ISP is offering customers a three-day upgrade for £5
Broadband provider Plusnet is offering a faster migration to customers wanting to upgrade to its max-speed product — for a fee.
Customers who have opted for the free upgrade up to 8Mbps may have to wait for up to 11 weeks to go through the bulk migration process, in which a thousand requests per week are being sent to BT by Plusnet. Therefore, the internet service provider (ISP) has offered to make manual, individual requests to BT for a fee of £5. This would ensure migration within days.
"We've processed 65,000 people on the free upgrade," a Plusnet spokesperson told ZDNet UK on Wednesday. "We've [still] got around 11,000 people [in the queue] — it will take a number of weeks to get those people upgraded through the bulk process."
The spokesperson denied the scheme means that customers who don't pay the will get bumped down the queue, stressing that the two upgrade streams will run independently of one another. He added that free-upgrade customers were "being processed in the order they opted in".
According to PlusNet, each ISP can only have a set number of regrades processed by BT each week. This helps BT handle the demand from over 100 ISPs which resell its broadband services.
The ISP estimated that around 75 customers per week to take up the offer of a sped-up upgrade. Asked what Plusnet would do if a large proportion of queuing customers opted for the offer, the spokesperson said the company "would be very busy putting those orders through".

This migration — an upgrade from BT's ADSL product to its Max ADSL product — is separate from Plusnet's transfer of some customers onto Tiscali's unbundled LLU platform. That migration , which involves clearing an entirely different backlog of customers, is currently suspended, although Plusnet's spokesperson said the ISP was in talks with Tiscali to resume the process shortly.

[Postie]

Heres another interesting one its not new though its from 2004,

BT promises truly universal broadband


Graeme Wearden
ZDNet UK
June 09, 2004, 13:05 BST


Tell us your opinion

Fibre-to-the-home and IP telephony will be key parts of BT's 21st Century Network


BT is planning to transform its UK telecommunications infrastructure into a pure IP-based network by 2009, allowing customers to get instant broadband access anywhere in the country over a range of devices. The scheme will see BT gradually abandon its existing ATM and PSTN voice network.
If the 21st Century Network project, as BT calls it, is a success, the telco will be able to deliver voice and data services over a network supporting Internet Protocol and Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS). This network will make a significantly greater use of fibre-optic connections than today. In some cases fibre will reach as far as the end-user's premises, superseding today's legacy copper lines.

"This is a decisive move from narrowband to broadband, and from PSTN to broadband," said Paul Reynolds, chief executive of BT Wholesale, at a press conference at the BT Centre in London on Wednesday.

"This is the most radical strategy of a telco business you will see anywhere in the world. It's fundamentally based on broadband everywhere," Reynolds added, who admitted that BT's existing network is not capable of coping with the predicted growth in broadband data services. He added: "We will have a single network running multiple services, not multiple networks running multiple services in a complicated way."

BT plans to begin mass migration from PSTN to IP in 2007. It is starting with a voice over IP trial involving 1,500 customers in Cambridge and Woolwich this year.

Analysts have suggested that voice over IP could make a massive hole in the voice revenues enjoyed by telcos such as BT. BT, though, is playing down this risk. "Voice over IP is an opportunity, not a threat," said Matt Bross, BT's chief technology officer.

A second trial will investigate fibre-to-the-home, providing telephone and broadband services over fibre to a further 1,500 people.

Building the 21st Century Network will take up most of BT's £3bn annual budget for capital expenditure between 2004 and 2009. Once the project is complete, high-speed data services should be universally available across the UK, over both fixed and wireless links. BT calls this access the "broadband dial tone", comparing it to the buzzing noise a fixed-line telephone makes to show that it is functioning. "With the broadband dial tone, you will be able to plug any IP-based device into the network and it will immediately recognise that the network is up and ready," Reynolds explained.

[Postie]

I am not going to flood the site out dont panic.And i dont want the job thanks if i had the spare time i would.

I'd rather see news just relating to DSL/Cable and the UK infrastructure.

I do to

This site is called " DSL ZoneUK " and not " The register " after all.

[Stickery]

I could do the scurrying- I am a net detective at heart, I don't know how accurate news items would be from scurrying though ?

[SteveAOL]

We are looking for two people who are "in-the-know" on ADSL and Broadband to be news posters for the site.

As you can see, the main front page does not get updated enough in terms of news stories, so if you have any sources, or don't mind scouring the web for news that may be useful to post on this site, please let me know by replying to this post.

If we have more than two people apply I may increase it to three news posters.

Each news poster will be provided with their own @dslzoneuk.net email address (accessible via POP3, IMAP and webmail)

Thanks

James

Hello James,

I love finding out information regarding Broadband technology and information in the UK and I love helping others out. As you can probably see I haven't posted much because I have just came back to this site and forum. When I was here last there was hardly and posters and this site has come a long way since back then. I would really enjoy lending a few hours every week to help you out with this site and get more involved in the DSLZoneUK community rather than other message boards such as ADSLGuide (although they are also great but this site is easily better)

Thanks,
Stephen

[James]

Thanks everyone. If there are any more people who would like to do this, please let me know.

I will get some draft articles written so that you have more of an idea what sort of news is suitable.

James

[James]

Also, I wouldn't want stories just to be just copied and pasted from other sites all the time, as that doesn't offer us any advantage over other sites. If you do copy aritcles, try to re-word them or take out bits that don't apply to the people who will potentially visit this site

Me and Paul are working on decisions... watch this space.

[James]

Postie, Stickery and sbryans605 - you have been appointed!

Please see the new forum called "News crew" at the top of the main forum index.

More information on what you need to do will be posted in that forum as soon as I get chance. Only myself, Paul and you 3 can see that forum...

Cheers

James

[djohn]

congratulations to Postie, Stickery and sbryans605 on your new jobs even though you didn't want it postie! Bit like the Army mate, you've been volunteered.

Right, where's the news items?