As anyone else heard that BT and Yahoo are teaming up to launch BT Yahoo!
The Business paper states that the service will cost more than the current broadband, priced at £29.99 but the service will be twice as fast. Trials will start in September and made generally available in November. The paper says the service will include a video jukebox to play high-definition videos, other services will be a personalised digital radio station.
BT Openworld customers will be gradually moved over to BT Yahoo! from September.
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I guess that's because of the very successful $29.95/month deal that Yahoo and the telephone company Southwestern Bell have been launching in the US. Does it require a one-year term sign-up as in the US? I have Yahoo DSL also and it is darn fast. My real speed tests show that the downstream speed is 1.5Mbps solid and the upstream is 125-130Kbps. The free modem is a good one too.

BTW, I think this thread should be in CoOp. :)

Moving it there now........

You can't beat 56k though! :D

Sorry I've looked around but can't find out if you have to sign into it 4 one year, http://www.btopenworld.com/announcement/faq gives some information to people who already use BTOpenworld.

Useful Links
news (http://www.ovum.co.uk/go/content/c,36046)

CNet (http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-1017399.html)

BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2993870.stm)

Where does it say about it being twice as fast? to me it reads they are just joining up with yahoo and changing the name from bt openworld to bt yahoo. and yahoo will provide content that nobody will use anyway.

5. How will this affect the price I pay?
This will not change. Our broadband and narrowband prices will stay the same. However, you'll receive an improved internet experience with compelling new applications and content.

The Business newspaper page 5 (left hand side, half way down)

What's the paper called? my dad is a manager with bt and gets the bt today paper, and there is nothing in the august edition of that about it.

hopefully so, if BT drops their prices, so will cable, but they will undercut BT :D

and lazza come-on! 56K, what century we in?

if your not in a ADSL area then move! or get SAT BB

The Business (http://www.thebusinessonline.com/afxpress2/thebusiness/section_3.xml.html)

Originally posted by Dave2986
hopefully so, if BT drops their prices, so will cable, but they will undercut BT :D

and lazza come-on! 56K, what century we in?

if your not in a ADSL area then move! or get SAT BB
ADSL is on it's way m8, I've seen to that. :D

It's just the frustrating wait now til Nov. :hdspin:

Lazza, if you're waiting for bt openworld? then phone them and ask for an eariler date. their waiting list is bullshit. ;) if you say nothing then you will wait until that date. i got mine fitted in a few days after phoning them.

but you can't get around the actual activation date, I think that is what Lazza (as am I) waiting for. Come on end of October

whooooshshhshshs

Did you try phoning them though? i didn't have to wait at all for an activation date. :) joined online>>got the letter about waiting ages>>phoned them up and the guy came a few days later and it was on. :) maybe it was because my old man worked for them i don't know. but i was a happy camper anyway.

emailrob r u talking about 'trigger dates' when u say 'Come on end of October'?

For all u city people try the links below (they r alot of people who still can't get ADSL).
http://62.172.198.79/broadband1/where_i_live/index.asp
http://62.172.198.79/broadband1/where_i_live/trigger_levels.asp?region=6
http://www.adslguide.org.uk/availability/btprereg.asp?order=trig

Not everyone lives in the cities/large towns so we have to wait, and play catch.

sdsl is what its called... At the moment there are only trials in certain ares such as london and manchester etc

yes Paul, that's what I mean. My date is set for late October, I have my ISP ready, so just waiting for BT to do their stuff (slow as ever).