BT starts switchover to next-gen telecoms

residents within the Welsh village of Wick have turn out to be the primary subscribers to BT's new era of telecom community, entirely based on net protocol (IP) era.

BT has been operating on its IP-based telecom community - known as BT 21st century community, or 21CN - for 3 years. the primary a hundred subscribers were signed up the day before today.

The 21CN community , described as one of the most formidable network tasks inside the global, will make BT capable of offer its clients triple play solutions with voice, information and video calls over ADSL2 connections presenting speeds of up to 24Mbit/s.

It means converging all the uk's present cellphone lines into one streamlined, faster and inexpensive network.

The telecom operator is looking to lower its operational costs by using £1.9bn according to yr. The migration of networks is anticipated to fee £10bn. BT isn't willing to reveal any information about capacity financial savings for subscribers at this level.

BT said it plans to preserve to connect its subscribers to the new network rapidly. subsequent to be converged is the relaxation of the Cardiff, Bridgend and Pontypridd area.

The aim is to have converted 350,000 phone strains to 21CN with the aid of mid-2007, in line with Anna Easton, head of media relations at BT. "Our aim is to apply this first phase as a learning duration," she brought.

by way of the cease of this decade, BT hopes to have most of the people of its 30m phone lines related to the brand new community. it'll also sell network potential to four hundred different operators within the uk.