Ofcom has proposed reductions in the prices BT can charge internet service providers (ISPs) in parts of the country where BT is the sole provider of wholesale broadband services.
By comparison the high-speed internet access BT is starting to roll out only runs at 512 kilobits per second.
Some reckon BSkyB is trying to protect its pay-TV business against the looming threat of television over Internet, including BT's forthcoming "Vision" IPTV product and the newly enlarged cable concern NTL, which has added rival Telewest and the cell provider Virgin Mobile.
Some reckon BSkyB is trying to protect its pay-TV business against the looming threat of television over Internet, including BT (nyse: BT - news - people )'s forthcoming "Vision" IPTV product and the newly enlarged cable concern NTL (nasdaq: NTLI - news - people ), which has added rival Telewest and the cell provider Virgin Mobile.
Of BT's share of the market, half of the connections are via its own ISP BT Openworld and the rest is made up from internet service providers such as Freeserve and AOL which buy broadband wholesale from BT.
Better still, YouView promises to launch multiple new internet channels (through providers BT and TalkTalk), adding to the 70 broadcast channels available on the box at the moment.
Phone regulator Oftel has weighed in and told BT to offer its rivals deals for Flat Rate Internet Access Call Origination (Friaco).
"The action taken today ensures that BT continues to recoup the cost of providing wholesale internet access, and that UK consumers continue to benefit from one of the world's most competitive dial-up internet access markets in the world, " said Oftel director general David Edmonds.
The internet connection was lost on 17 December after BT installed broadband in the upstairs flat, Mrs Telfer said.
So far, BT and Scipher have sent letters to lots of US internet service providers - it is not planning to ask individual users to pay to use the web.
However, TPB new IP (internet protocol) addresses became active on Tuesday following BT's action.
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Google has struck back with claims that BT has infringed a method to allow PCs to use an internet-based telephone system based on a patent originally filed by Fujitsu.
In 2012, New Jersey-based intellectual property owner Suffolk Technologies sued Google and US internet service provider AOL over two patents it had acquired from BT.
The technology, called DSL, already exists to allow internet connections up to 100 times faster than existing modems, and BT has been testing it for some time.
BT, one of the UK's biggest providers of hotspots has even installed wi-fi internet access in McDonald's outlets across the country.
Known as Friaco, for Flat Rate Internet Access Call Origination, this charges ISPs for the number of lines they take from BT rather than the amount of traffic flowing over them.
The initiative by Microsoft and BT is the latest shot in a escalating battle to attract corporate clients who want to use the Internet on the move, rather than be tied to their PCs.
The battle for the online TV market has gathered pace this year after BT joined forces with other big names in the industry such as BBC to develop YouView, an internet connected set-top box.
"Best thing was the BT helpline advising customers to logon to BT.com if they can't get through on the phone - not easy logging in without internet!"
Internet service providers have asked the government to intervene over the price being set to give them access to BT's physical infrastructure.
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