How Can I find Out If My Exchange Is Ever Going To Be Upgraded?
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How Can I find Out If My Exchange Is Ever Going To Be Upgraded?
01-04-2013 11:30 AM
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As the title says really, how can I find out if my local exchange (rural Wales!) is ever going to be upgraded to fibre? I hope us rural folk are not going to be completely overlooked and never get upgraded, I work from home as do a LOT of rural thirty and forty somethings I probably have more of a need for fibre than most city and town dwellers. Is there even and end date in the pipeline when all exchanges will be at least fibre? Crikey I hope it is not all left down to BT I will be waiting forever!
At one time it was a simple race between a fibre upgrade and 4g but with the ridiculous price of 4g and the even more ridiculous usage restrictions looks like I am once again at the mercy of BT wholesale, NOT a great place to be at!
Thanks
Chris
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01-04-2013 11:43 AM
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01-04-2013 11:56 AM
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It say my local exchange is under evaluation as part of a Government funding programme, any idea how long this evaluation period is, or what it entails, I would really like some sort of date even if it 12 - 24 months away it would be nice to know that it is going to be upgraded even eventually.
Why does this process of upgrade take soooooooo long?
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01-04-2013 2:26 PM
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More information.
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01-04-2013 7:48 PM
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Quote from: PembsPanther Why does this process of upgrade take soooooooo long?
Unfortunately because it costs £££s to upgrade the infrastructure and someone (ie usually BT) has to take into account the return on investment. The more rural the area in which we live the more it can cost (because everything's spread over a larger area with no convenient way to lay cable etc) and a lower population density to actually pay for the higher cost. So the areas with the higher RoI get done first.
At least you've got the Welsh Government willing to consider investing in infrastructure to make it worth BTs while. I wish we had a "Dorset Government" to consider funding our "Not currently in rollout plans" exchange so we can get more than the 2mbps we currently get
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01-04-2013 11:57 PM
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Quote from: MrC I wish we had a "Dorset Government" to consider funding our "Not currently in rollout plans" exchange
See http://www.dorsetforyou.com/superfast-dorset/when-is-superfast-broadband-coming
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02-04-2013 7:31 AM
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02-04-2013 8:46 AM
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02-04-2013 11:19 AM
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Thanks for the link, I cannot find anything that says 21CN the only details I can see is that is ADSL Max Status as of 31.03.2006.
It serves 835 residential and 67 no residential properties it is Market 1.
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Chris
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02-04-2013 11:21 AM
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