| Company type | Broadband |
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| Founder | Sir William Fothergill Cooke, George Parker Bidder, and Joseph Lewis Ricardo. |
| Headquarters | UK, London |
| Revenue | (20,845 (2022)) |
| Owner | BT Group |
| Website | www |
BT Broadband is abroadband service offered byBT Consumer; a division ofBT Group in theUnited Kingdom. It was formerly known as BT Total Broadband,[1] BT Yahoo! Broadband and BT Openworld. With the introduction of BT Infinity, the Broadband package now refers to the legacy ADSL broadband products, such as ADSL Max andADSL2+.
TheBT Home Hub is awireless Internetrouter fromBT. It is based on theIEEE 802.11g (WiFi) standard and also supportsIEEE 802.11b devices. It is significant as it marks BTs departure away from traditionaltelecommunications services and towardsInternet andmedia products. It supportsVoIP Internet calls and is compatible with existingDECT handsets. It works with the existingBT Fusion service and works with theBT Visionvideo on demand service.[2] The device connects to the Internet using a standardADSL connection. It will be able to support theWBC products using ADSL2+ (up to 24 Mb) when BT Wholesale launches them in April 2008.BT launched a new look Home Hub in October 2007 with an enhanced wireless footprint.[clarification needed] In July 2008 the Home Hub was relaunched with a new smaller design, Draft-N wireless, additional connections and a new user interface; unlike the previous replacement, the new Home Hub was given a .0 release, making it the Home Hub 2.0.
In January 2010, BT launched a new product calledBT Infinity. 4 million homes in the UK are covered by this service. Most homes will getFTTC service and have up to 40 Mbit/s broadband, while those withFTTP will get 100 Mbit/s and a 20 GB monthly usage allowance in 2010, with an unlimited package also offered.[3] BT have since rolled out Infinity 2.
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