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Exchange Activate - a proposalExchange activate is a scheme where BT will put a mini-DLSLAM in an exchange for an up front payment of £55,000 for one ISP to provide BT IPStream Home 500 service for 30 users. This proposal would involve BT offering a full rebate of the £55,000 if it fully enabled the exchange in the first 12 months. Rebates of 50% would be available for the second 12 months and of 20% for the third 12 months. No rebate would be paid if BT fully enabled the exchange after 36 months of Exchange Activate being deployed. The idea is for sponsoring bodies (e.g. regional development agencies) to fund some of the £55,000 to reduce the consumer cost to "normal" broadband cost. IPSTream Home 500 is the service BT Openworld normally sell at £29.99 If an ISP takes subsequent 30 user blocks on the same exchange the charge would be £45,000 for three years per block At the end of three years covered by the £55,000 fee the ISP would pay the prevailing monthly IP Stream Home 500 access monthly rental charge (currently £14.75) The service would be limited to a download speed of 500Kbps and an upload speed of 256Kbp It is only a proposal at the moment so Service providers will only be "thinking" about it! The proposal is based on rural testing down primarily in Scotland and Wales where the equivalent of SEEDA paid for the testing. Lyndhurst is one of eight trial sites across the country where BT has worked with local partners to bring high speed internet technology to areas where it had previously not been commercially viable. This scheme reports back on the 3rd April 2003. BT Community Broadband Trials Underway in Scotland and Wales |
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