Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. BT Highway was a UK retail ISDN2e service from British Telecom which was announced in November 1997 and withdrawn in February 2007. In the domestic market, it was sold as BT Home Highway and for small businesses, BT Business Highway. These monikers were simply used to differentiate billing schemes; the hardware for both services used the name BT Highway.Due to ISDN's ability to establish connections in less than 3 seconds, BT Highway provided many people's first experience of a near always-on Internet connection. The service also provided many people's first experience of an Internet connection that ran faster than a dial-up modem (up to 128kbit/s compared to 56 kbit/s, and with a latency of 75-150ms compared to 150-300ms). BT Highway was available five or more years before the availability of broadband, especially in rural areas where ISDN was available over far longer distances, and far more telephone exchanges, than the initial roll-out of ADSL,

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