BT is reducing the prices it charges other service providers when they sign up broadband customers from other suppliers. BT is also making it cheaper for service providers to move their existing customer base from a BT IPStream based service to one based on BT DataStream. Migration prices will fall to £11 per end user from May 1. The cost of switching a customer from one BT IPStream based supplier to another has fallen from £35 per end user, whereas the cost of moving a customer from a BT IPStream based service to one based on BT DataStream has come down from £50 per end user.
BT IPStream is a wholesale ADSL product sold to internet service providers (ISPs). In simple terms, it is an end-to-end wholesale broadband service that ISPs use to sell on to their end user customers.
BT DataStream is an ATM transport product which tends to be bought by other network operators. These alternative network operators can then use their own ATM and IP networks to sell services directly or indirectly through their ISP customers to consumers and businesses. http://www.btplc.com
