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Originally Posted by DrAwesome
BT cut Datastream products by £1 per month from 1st June 2004.
Which means that the cost to providers for a Datastream connection will be £74.60 per year (£87.66 inc VAT).
BT are dragging there heels at upgrading datastream network, ADSL Datastream prices are getting cheaper, but is it also effecting the quality of service?
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BT don't run the datastream network it's an In-span ATM handoff to ISPs, the ISPs decide how much capacity they want to buy from a particular exchange and BT supply this amount of capacity - this is a contractual agreement.
Any issues with sizes of the VPs (the connections between exchanges and the receiving ISP) are down to either the ISP undersizing the VP, or delays in BT upgrading VPs, however BT don't judge how much capacity to give any ISP from an exchange.