WBC Trials

As well as its involvement in the Consult21 process, Entanet has been the only non-BT company involved in the service trials of BT’s WBC. This involved a number of customers on 10 exchanges connected to the Birmingham node having a second ADSL line installed in order to test the speed and reliability of the new high speed broadband connections.

In addition, Entanet undertook further WBC customer trials which saw the existing ADSL1 connections of Entanet customers’ who are connected to the Birmingham and Wolverhampton nodes moved to the 21C network. They experienced minimal service interruption as expected and in the future will be invited to adopt a faster ADSL2+ service. In summer 2008 Entanet will also be involved in the first trials of fibre to the premises (FTTP). This will allow end users to potentially have up to 100Mbps connections direct to their home and delivered back onto Entanet’s network as if they were a DSL subscriber.