BT

ISP Network Operator

United Kingdom

Valid from 1846-01-01

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About

BT (British Telecom) is a UK ISP and part of BT Group. Pre-Openreach era retail internet included BT Click pay-as-you-go dial (from October 1998) and BT Openworld broadband branding; operated PSTN dial-up and launched BT Surftime unmetered wholesale in June 2000 alongside Oftel-mandated FRIACO (Source), (Source), (Source).

Operator Characteristics

Organization type

ISP (1846-01-01)
BT Click dial-up launched October 1998; BT Openworld broadband followed later (Source).
Network Operator (1846-01-01 – 2006-01-01)
PSTN/copper network operator before Openreach (2006).

Retail-only ISP?

No (1846-01-01)

Altnet?

No (1846-01-01)
Major incumbent - not an altnet

Owns Networks

British Telecom Datanet ADSL — 1846-01-01 – 2010-12-22
Archived in our old database, though there is another Datanet which appears to be operational (Source).
BT Dial-Up — 1846-01-01 – 2006-01-01
BT DSL — 2000-08-01 – 2006-01-01
Pre-Openreach IPStream ADSL infrastructure.
BT ISDN — 1990-01-01 – 2006-01-01

Sells Over Networks

British Telecom Datanet ADSL — 2000-01-01 – 2010-12-22
BT sold broadband over its own British Telecom Datanet ADSL network (Source).
BT Dial-Up — 1998-10-01 – 2006-01-01
BT sold dial-up internet over its own PSTN network until Openreach separation (Source).
BT DSL — 2000-08-01 – 2006-01-01
BT sold broadband over its own pre-Openreach IPStream ADSL network (Source).
BT ISDN — 1990-01-01 – 2006-01-01
BT sold ISDN internet access over its own digital subscriber lines (Source).
Openreach DSL — 2006-01-01
Openreach FTTC — 1846-01-01
Openreach FTTP — 1846-01-01
Openreach G.fast — 2018-06-01
BT sells broadband over Openreach G.fast where available. Openreach demonstrated G.fast in June 2017; commercial rollout began with 40 locations by June 2018 (Source), (Source).