The mobile operator 02 has indicated that it will launch a broadband service
over landlines in the Spring of 2007, more detail over at FT.com.

O2 is owned by the Telefonica who purchased the ADSL2+ unbundled service
provide Be in June 2006. Be currently has around 236 exchanges enabled,
which according to the statistics on SamKnows.com/broadband means the
service is available to around 4,500,000 premises. Of these an estimated
2,700,000 are within 2km of the exchange which with an ADSL2+ service
suggests a line speed of 15Mbps or possibly higher.

http://www.adslguide.org.uk/newsarchive.asp?item=2829

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On 20 Oct 2006, "Jon Goode" <.@co.uk> wrote:

236 of about 5591 (totals off the regional breakdown from same
website) doesn't seem like that many, and whatever the wonderful
service might be for those within range, the fact is the majority
of the UK's populace has no chance of getting service from them!

(I don't know if there's an easy way to check how many premises are
given in total for the UK, nor what proportion are within 2 km, but
I didn't spend all that long looking around the SamKnows site - it
does have useful info, but my response is more of a query over how
informative stats are if UK-wide totals couldn't be quickly found.)

On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 14:17:28 +0100, "Jon Goode" <.@co.uk> wrote:


They've also admitted that they are only looking to sign up their
highest spending customers so if you don't have a high volume business
account with them then you're stuffed

jim