BT is to cut the wholesale cost of its symmetric business broadband products in a bid to kick-start demand for SDSL. From 21 October, the wholesale connection charge for BT IPStream Symmetric and BT DataStream Symmetric products will be cut from £450 to £225 for orders completed by 24 February, 2005. SDSL (Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line) uses the same speed for both receiving and transmitting data and is much better suited to the transmission of large files.

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