Although BT are busy announcing how much it will spend on it's 21st Century Network (21CN) it seems that it will be delayed, well according to who you talk to that is.

The £10bn project to BT's network was previously scheduled for completion by 2010, but according to it's website it will be implemented over three years starting from 2008, but unless BT is very bad at maths, this means that it will be 2011, or a year late before it's complete. Even the website shows that some parts of Northern England, Scotland, Wales and South West England will not have been migrated to the all-IP network by 2010.

The news is hardly surprising as way back in 2004 when plans were first made BT proudly announced that "mass migration of customers onto the new network will begin in 2006", right.

This news comes from it's wholesale division, but its retail outfit said it would be completed by 2009, so who who you believe?