Distance limits removed for 512kb/sec ADSL services

Range for 1 Mb/sec ADSL extended to reach 6km from exchange.

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Thats good for alot of people however i think they could just start dropping the prices caise people say they have dropped but they have only dropped and givin less in terms of bandwith and connection speeds.

BT is unlikely to drop prices while they have a virtual monopoly and little competition

Yeah, now that is a shame. BT must be rich with all those isps who say require BT line like wanadoo, tiscalli, fairadsl and many more. Do they rearly need people joining their broadband as much?

I'm not exactly sure how broadband works, but BT own all the telephone exchanges, as far as i know they therefore own the DSL equipment in them, they sell products like 'IP stream 500' to ISP's for a fixed price, they therefore control the baseline price. There is no cable network where i live so its wired b/band access or nothing at all.

It used to be the same in South Korea when Korea Telecom had no less than 100% market share in South Korea until several years ago. The first broadband company in South Korea was not Korea Telecom, but Thrunet which started cable internet in 1998. Monopoly is a common enemy of the people. Korea Telecom is still too big and powerful though. I'd like to see AT&T and Motorola doing a lot of business in South Korea introducing further competition but it seemed they were not interested that much.