Wholesale Broadband Connect
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| Division | |
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Headquarters |
BT Centre London, EC1 United Kingdom |
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Area served
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United Kingdom |
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Key people
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Gerry McQuade (CEO) |
| Products |
Telephony Broadband Digital television IT and network services Payphones Directory solutions Home security Fleet management Supply chain management |
| Services | Wholesale leasing |
| Owner | BT Group |
| Website | www |
BT Wholesale and Ventures is a division of United Kingdom telecommunications company BT Group that provides voice, broadband, data, hosted communication, managed network and IT services to communications providers (CPs) in Great Britain, including BT's other divisions: BT Consumer, BT Business and Public Sector and EE. They also offer services for media companies and broadcasters, and its ventures side offers a range of products and services. It provides the voice services to UK customers via 999, 118 500 and Next Generation Text Service, which helps those who can’t hear or speak on the phone. The division is also leading the BT thinking on the internet of things.
It was formerly known as BT Wholesale and took on its current name following BT's new organisational structure that took effect in April 2016 after its acquisition of EE, and comprises the existing BT Wholesale division along with EE's mobile virtual network operator business as well as some specialist businesses such as Fleet, Payphones and Directories. Its ventures side includes the following businesses:
Wholesale Broadband Connect (WBC) is BT Wholesale's up-to-24 Mbit/s ADSL offering in the UK, which is currently being rolled out to exchanges throughout the UK as part of the 21CN upgrade. WBC replaces the now-retired ADSL Max product. It also refers to BT's native Fibre-to-the-Premises service, in which BT pays for the majority of the cost to roll fibre directly to houses, with home owners able to pay a substantially smaller cost to receive the service, though its rollout is very slow and patchy.
WBC is defined in SIN 472.
ADSL2+ has been available in the UK from Internet Service Providers since 2005, through Local Loop Unbundling.
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