Welcome

BT’s 21st century network (21CN) is the world’s most radical, ambitious and exciting next generation network implementation. It has implications for the UK communications industry. It affects everyone. That’s why BT created Consult21 in 2004. We wanted to ensure that industry had an opportunity to understand the programme and what it was trying to achieve, and more importantly, to influence it.

This year, the first end users will migrate from the legacy PSTN to an all IP 21st century network. It will happen in Cardiff and South Wales from November. BT will embrace any lessons we learn in Cardiff and deploy them as we move to bring 21CN to everyone in the UK by the end of the decade.

21CN is a journey and in 2006, we enter a very exciting phase. This bulletin has been designed to ensure that as many people in the industry have an opportunity to learn more and join us on our Countdown to Cardiff and beyond. 

We hope you enjoy the bulletin and in order to make your navigation of the articles easier, we have highlighted for you those stories which relate to Consult21 and 21CN respectively.

Paul Reynolds

Chief Executive
BT Wholesale