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Sep 8, 2006
BT has laid out
its plan to upgrade existing UK
customers to its 21st century network (21CN) infrastructure. Starting in late
November this year, BT plans to work closely with other communications providers
to begin the planned upgrade of customers and their voice and broadband
services starting in Cardiff
and the surrounding area.
According to the telecom provider, customers need not do anything for their
lines to be upgraded. Telephone numbers will not change and, as all work will
be carried out in BT’s telephone exchanges, no roads will have to be dug up to
deliver the upgrade.
The first stage of the new network is expected to be delivered in three phases,
increasing in scale with each phase. By the end of Phase 3 in the summer of
2007, BT expects to have upgraded all 350,000 customer lines. 90,000 of these
lines also support broadband and ISDN2 and ISDN30 services.
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